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Desktop vs Laptop Gaming

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mattpegher

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Considering that a Desktop Pentium D dual core with 1G dual nVidia graphics card is the same price as a Laptop Pentium D with single graphics card is it worth it to go mobile. I know that Conroe is coming out and I here tell that it will fit on either Mobo. But will the portable machine soon be to slow. If Oblivion is any indication of a new age of machine hungry games, I don't want to waste the money for the convienience.
 
Honestly, I really dont' see the benefit unless you frequent gaming outside of the home. Like if you go to a lot of lan parties, or have long periods of time outside the home and you have free time to play games on your laptop.

It's a nice idea, but the games will catch up quickly considering your threshold on what is "tolerable". I did this same idea with a Dell Inspiron 9300 about a year and a half ago, and although it was nice while it lasted, it just eventually didn't work out in the end because I couldn't upgrade anything besides the ram and hard drive of the laptop. I just sold it and went back to a desktop machine so I could have more flexibility.

I'm not sure about the newer technologies, but the laptop counterparts to standard gaming machines is not very equal. Also you're paying quite the premium, but if you want to go mobile, there's no better way.
 
Laptops are quickly adopting desktop gpus (scaled down a bit of course) and the limitation is becoming the screen, although there are some nice uxga screens out there. Though this is becoming the case, it is not becoming more cost effective, with the dell xps m1210 running upwards of $5000 fully loaded. You could build a pc like that for $2000 less! IMO, its not worth it, but It's kind of cool to be able to game anywhere, I envy the person that can play call of duty 2 while on their flight to LA. *Also* There is a 19" gaming sli laptop if you start your fireflace with cash...
 
dude, how long does it take for video cards to be insufficient? A 6600gt that was bought just a year ago, and handled everything then very well now struggles in new games. Badass gaming laptops will become mediocre gaming laptops in a year. The ONLY reason to go with one, is if you absolutely have to be mobile all the time. If you go to an occasional LAN party, get an SFF system. Laptops are NOT worth it for gaming unless you've got wads of cash and HAVE to be mobile.

For the $5k you spend on a laptop, you could spend $2k on a CRAZY gaming pc, and stash the other $3k for upgrades for the next 3 years to keep it on top. To me, it's a no brainer.

I have a little compact P3 laptop with wireless that I take everywhere. It's perfect for classes, and the coffee shop. I play old non graphics intensive games on it, like ScummVM, and SNES emulators, both of which it handles perfectly. a 2MB Ati Rage IIC is... how shal I say.... insufficient for any sort of hardware acceleration. But, it does handle hardware overlays reasonably well, allowing me to watch SD h.264 video in full screen with media player classic's overlay mixer and the CoreAVC decoder. I can watch any of my archived media from my desktop on the laptop perfectly. I got my lap for under $200, and it does everything I need.

Spend a bunch on a gaming PC, and then get a basic lap. It really works out well.
 
what he said... the m1210 was the best gaming laptop untill hypersonic or someone came out with a 19" sli beast. Just goes to show...
 
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