Gaming laptop is worth more than a desktop pc

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$800 desktop would kill an $1100 laptop. Hands down. (Granted you dont have to buy an OS, monitor and other stuff) If ya need those things, then for $1100 it would still kill it with monitor, OS, keyboard, mouse included. Since those dont really effect performance, cept for the resolution of monitor.
 


he was pertaining to price/perf ratio. and whether he (or anyone) do (or dont) spend too much money for computer hardware is beyond the point.
 


Mmmm'kay.😀 Was working towards that point too, didn't say it as fluently as you did tho'. Anyway, we should just leave this thread, OP is dead set on his opinion.
 


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Sorry this thread is kinda ridiculous. I'm not trying to be a jerk... But anyone that thinks a laptop price for price has more or even close to equivalent power to a desktop is highly mistaken. Vrumor is 1000% correct on this. There is no subjective, some think some don't. That's a fact. Regardless if you like or don't like laptops or desktops. The benchmarks don't lie. Take any two systems. (and for you rookies make sure the resolutions etc are the same!) price for price and compare. The desktop will come out on top every time.

Laptops are convenient and portable. But there's a reason people always say there's no such thing as a "gaming" laptop. You can't get the same kind of power mainly because you cannot keep it cool. They are too compact. A good gaming laptop for lack of a better word is going to cost 2k + easily. If you think you've found one cheaper your looking at a very low resolution. That's the biggest thing most on this thread aren't accounting for. Here's a comparison chart of intel procs. Mobile and desktop. You don't need to dig any further then even the clock speed to see the laptop chips are highly under par from a desktop. even the EXTREME version of laptop procs can't keep up with the basic chips for desktop. Again this mainly because of cooling issues... You can only push so much power in a laptop before you burn your f'ng leg off lol.

Heres the link do what you want with it. http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processor-comparison/compare-intel-processors.html?select=laptop
But to argue otherwise is simply ... well... just naive. A little research easily proves a laptop cannot hang.
 
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