Why you dont want to buy a gaming laptop

Im sick of having to write this in every thread which asks about a "gaming laptop". so i just leave this here in the hope people will see it before they post.

Why you dont want a "gaming laptop":

I've got a nice desktop, but I love kicking back on the couch and gaming on my laptop. I use a USB mouse with it, so I see no drawbacks with laptop gaming whatsoever...

there is no such thing as a gaming laptop. gaming is about the experience. so;

a: you need to be able to concentrate on it.

Makes no sense whatsoever

b: you need a large screen

No you don't

c: you need to be comfortable

I'm more comfortable laying back on the couch with my laptop than in my very nice desk chair

d: you need good sound

My laptop has good sound

e: you need good mouse and keyboard

The keyboard is fine, and I use a USB mouse

f: you want something powerful as the more fluid a game can be the more enjoyment you will get

Laptops aren't as powerful, but they're definitely good enough for gaming, and they're portable too

d: your system needs to be able to disperse heat, something all laptops have a problem with. especially after 6 months of dust

I've been gaming on this laptop for over 6 months and there is no dust buildup =P

and if you dont care about all of that, and still think you will have a good gaming experience on a 15inch screen on a bus, please consider:

a:everything in your laptop has a lifespan of 2 years, after which your money is completely wasted. as you wont be able to upgrade sufficiently.

I seriously have no idea what you are talking about here. You can easily sell a laptop on eBay...

b: the case you pay for in a laptop gets thrown away

c: the keyboard gets thrown away

d: the touch pad gets thrown away

e: the motherboard gets thrown away

f: the power supply gets thrown away

g: the monitor gets thrown away

h: cpu thrown away

i: ram thrown away

j: hard drives, thrown away

k: cd/dvd drives thrown away

I still don't understand your logic there, but okay..

with a desktop, when things are a little out of date, you can keep almost all of these components and just buy a new motherboard, or cpu, or graphics card etc. making desktops better for the world and better for your pocket.

also consider

a: laptop is easy to steal

Don't be stupid and leave it lying around in public places

b: a gaming laptop will be targeted especially to steal

See above..

c: you will look like a nerdy rich kid

If you're posting on a PC forum, sorry, but you're a nerd, lol.. Nobody cares if you look like a nerd...

have i talked you out of it yet??

lol, not quite....

can someone STICKY THIS POST please?? because every day there is someone asking about a "gaming laptop", and another person crying that their new "gaming laptop" performs like crap, overheats, was a waste of money. it really annoys me and ever gamer/techie really knows that gaming laptops are overpriced peices of crap that no one should be looking at buying.

I got my laptop on sale for $600 and it will play any game on the market just fine. And I haven't had a single problem with it yet. Newer chips run much cooler. Gaming on laptops is flippin awesome IMO...

thanks

Yeah, I think a lot of people who own gaming desktops own them because they like customizing their systems. It gives them something to toy around with, upgrade here or there, and modify things to their liking. We do it all the time. From cars, car audio, down to PCs , we want to put our imprint on it. Laptops, to my knowledge, aren't capable of having their gpu upgraded. I know you can do the ram, hard drive, and disc drive, but I think that's about it. I just purchased a Sony tablet and while I love it, you cannot upgrade it whatsoever, but then again I didn't buy it for gaming. It is playstation certified, so it can game, but I didn't buy it for that purpose. I think it's better to have a gaming desktop, instead of a gaming laptop, If you have money to throw around, I say get both, you can always buy another gaming laptop in 4-5 years.

Yeah, I think a lot of people who own gaming desktops own them because they like customizing their systems. It gives them something to toy around with, upgrade here or there, and modify things to their liking. We do it all the time. From cars, car audio, down to PCs , we want to put our imprint on it. Laptops, to my knowledge, aren't capable of having their gpu upgraded. I know you can do the ram, hard drive, and disc drive, but I think that's about it. I just purchased a Sony tablet and while I love it, you cannot upgrade it whatsoever, but then again I didn't buy it for gaming. It is playstation certified, so it can game, but I didn't buy it for that purpose. I think it's better to have a gaming desktop, instead of a gaming laptop, If you have money to throw around, I say get both, you can always buy another gaming laptop in 4-5 years.

godzillavskong

lol

tempted to insut the TC when i finally decide to leave Gamespot for good. like make threads about you dont want to be seercirca

tempted to insut the TC when i finally decide to leave Gamespot for good. like make threads about you dont want to be seercirca

ionusX

Is that coming up or was that your recent absence?

[QUOTE="godzillavskong"]

Yeah, I think a lot of people who own gaming desktops own them because they like customizing their systems. It gives them something to toy around with, upgrade here or there, and modify things to their liking. We do it all the time. From cars, car audio, down to PCs , we want to put our imprint on it. Laptops, to my knowledge, aren't capable of having their gpu upgraded. I know you can do the ram, hard drive, and disc drive, but I think that's about it. I just purchased a Sony tablet and while I love it, you cannot upgrade it whatsoever, but then again I didn't buy it for gaming. It is playstation certified, so it can game, but I didn't buy it for that purpose. I think it's better to have a gaming desktop, instead of a gaming laptop, If you have money to throw around, I say get both, you can always buy another gaming laptop in 4-5 years.

GummiRaccoon

lol

[QUOTE="GummiRaccoon"]

[QUOTE="godzillavskong"]

Yeah, I think a lot of people who own gaming desktops own them because they like customizing their systems. It gives them something to toy around with, upgrade here or there, and modify things to their liking. We do it all the time. From cars, car audio, down to PCs , we want to put our imprint on it. Laptops, to my knowledge, aren't capable of having their gpu upgraded. I know you can do the ram, hard drive, and disc drive, but I think that's about it. I just purchased a Sony tablet and while I love it, you cannot upgrade it whatsoever, but then again I didn't buy it for gaming. It is playstation certified, so it can game, but I didn't buy it for that purpose. I think it's better to have a gaming desktop, instead of a gaming laptop, If you have money to throw around, I say get both, you can always buy another gaming laptop in 4-5 years.

godzillavskong

lol

oh I thought you were joking.

Well some laptops do have upgradable GPUs

and something being ps3 certified doesn't mean anything

sorry

[QUOTE="godzillavskong"][QUOTE="GummiRaccoon"]

lol

GummiRaccoon

oh I thought you were joking.

Well some laptops do have upgradable GPUs

and something being ps3 certified doesn't mean anything

sorry

[QUOTE="ionusX"]

tempted to insut the TC when i finally decide to leave Gamespot for good. like make threads about you dont want to be seercirca

GummiRaccoon

Is that coming up or was that your recent absence?

anyway one day i will leave. likely when folks as old as me start to move on out in favor of these newtypes. basically that translates to me waiting on superclocked, marc, you and a few others to bail permanently. then im gonna probably make jokes about a couple peoples moms and call a few known trolls some racial slurs to i CANT COME BACK

[QUOTE="GummiRaccoon"]

[QUOTE="ionusX"]

tempted to insut the TC when i finally decide to leave Gamespot for good. like make threads about you dont want to be seercirca

ionusX

Is that coming up or was that your recent absence?

anyway one day i will leave. likely when folks as old as me start to move on out in favor of these newtypes. basically that translates to me waiting on superclocked, marc, you and a few others to bail permanently. then im gonna probably make jokes about a couple peoples moms and call a few known trolls some racial slurs to i CANT COME BACK

[QUOTE="ionusX"]

[QUOTE="GummiRaccoon"]

Is that coming up or was that your recent absence?

godzillavskong

anyway one day i will leave. likely when folks as old as me start to move on out in favor of these newtypes. basically that translates to me waiting on superclocked, marc, you and a few others to bail permanently. then im gonna probably make jokes about a couple peoples moms and call a few known trolls some racial slurs to i CANT COME BACK

1) never try to fight a land war in asia

2) think ionusx is incapable of rapid self destruction

im like a creeper i go hiss a couple of times then i explode

[QUOTE="godzillavskong"][QUOTE="ionusX"] hardly was recent try close to 4-5months ago XD

anyway one day i will leave. likely when folks as old as me start to move on out in favor of these newtypes. basically that translates to me waiting on superclocked, marc, you and a few others to bail permanently. then im gonna probably make jokes about a couple peoples moms and call a few known trolls some racial slurs to i CANT COME BACK

ionusX

1) never try to fight a land war in asia

2) think ionusx is incapable of rapid self destruction

im like a creeper i go hiss a couple of times then i explode

[QUOTE="godzillavskong"][QUOTE="ionusX"] hardly was recent try close to 4-5months ago XD

anyway one day i will leave. likely when folks as old as me start to move on out in favor of these newtypes. basically that translates to me waiting on superclocked, marc, you and a few others to bail permanently. then im gonna probably make jokes about a couple peoples moms and call a few known trolls some racial slurs to i CANT COME BACK

ionusX

1) never try to fight a land war in asia

2) think ionusx is incapable of rapid self destruction

im like a creeper i go hiss a couple of times then i explode

[QUOTE="ionusX"]

[QUOTE="godzillavskong"] I don't think you'll stoop that low, at least to make racial slurs. godzillavskong

1) never try to fight a land war in asia

2) think ionusx is incapable of rapid self destruction

im like a creeper i go hiss a couple of times then i explode

i can get it to work but i need to unplug my monitor 1st from my computer (not the other way round), then reconnect them and then i can make it work properly. pretty sure my HDMi cable isnt to blame nor is my gpu. it was 12.3 updates that did it and 12.4 hasnt rectified it

anyway im tempted to try eyefinity for the 1st time using twin 32" LCD's sometime in the future as i have a 2nd 32inch in another room and another HDMI cable to boot. i could do three way but that would require a third cable.

however the tv's would be all the same (1 samsung, 1 lg, 1 sony) and while two of em have the same res one is slightly larger @ 1366 x 768 ill probably put that one down center if i ever do

[QUOTE="godzillavskong"][QUOTE="ionusX"] two things you dont ever do.

1) never try to fight a land war in asia

2) think ionusx is incapable of rapid self destruction

im like a creeper i go hiss a couple of times then i explode

ionusX

i can get it to work but i need to unplug my monitor 1st from my computer (not the other way round), then reconnect them and then i can make it work properly. pretty sure my HDMi cable isnt to blame nor is my gpu. it was 12.3 updates that did it and 12.4 hasnt rectified it

anyway im tempted to try eyefinity for the 1st time using twin 32" LCD's sometime in the future as i have a 2nd 32inch in another room and another HDMI cable to boot. i could do three way but that would require a third cable.

however the tv's would be all the same (1 samsung, 1 lg, 1 sony) and while two of em have the same res one is slightly larger @ 1366 x 768 ill probably put that one down center if i ever do

[QUOTE="GummiRaccoon"]

[QUOTE="ionusX"]

tempted to insut the TC when i finally decide to leave Gamespot for good. like make threads about you dont want to be seercirca

ionusX

Is that coming up or was that your recent absence?

anyway one day i will leave. likely when folks as old as me start to move on out in favor of these newtypes. basically that translates to me waiting on superclocked, marc, you and a few others to bail permanently. then im gonna probably make jokes about a couple peoples moms and call a few known trolls some racial slurs to i CANT COME BACK

laptops and gaming are pretty much stupid and shouldn't be used in the same sentence, and no laptops don't have "good sound", their onboard audio SUCKS major BALLZ, ALL of them without exception. I love my desktop m-audio av40's hooked up to a nice 100 watt subwoofer to get my bass pounding and the neighbors cursing. Anyone who buys a laptop for gaming is an idiot as far as im concerned. The most I would spend on a laptop is around $800 and if it has gaming capabilities then all the better.

[QUOTE="ionusX"]

[QUOTE="GummiRaccoon"]

Is that coming up or was that your recent absence?

tequilasunriser

anyway one day i will leave. likely when folks as old as me start to move on out in favor of these newtypes. basically that translates to me waiting on superclocked, marc, you and a few others to bail permanently. then im gonna probably make jokes about a couple peoples moms and call a few known trolls some racial slurs to i CANT COME BACK

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