The Glade 4.0

I'm not trying to say that latops, tablets, etc suck. I'm just trying to say that desktops have their place too.

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Yeah, I have to side with the desktop folks. Not only can you build a much more powerful machine for the money, but the price premium for laptops + lack of upgradability means it doesn't pace itself with hardware revisions. You're locked into a build for 2-3 years until you throw it in the dumpster and lay down another 2-4 grand, can't incrementally revise.

Laptops definitely have their place, I work on one all day every day. However, when I play heavily graphical games, it's on the desktop.

Sure, just don't claim that they're more versatile when their only versatility lies, essentially, in power.

Lenas,

Describe your 'gaming'? What games are you playing on your laptop? How often do you play, and how long are your typical gaming sessions?

In the last month I've spent about 66 hours spread around: Borderlands 2, Mark of the Ninja, Overlord and Awesomenauts. My play has been spread in-between my desk, my bed, my couch and my friend's dining room. I typically play with a controller because I use a mouse at work all day and would like to avoid RSI if possible.

Prior to those I was playing Tomb Raider, The Last of Us and some others on PS3.

Really? Tell me something that a tablet or laptop can do that a desktop can't, other than be portable.

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Their versatility lies in their portability, that's the whole point. I can take my laptop to work and plug it into my iMac as a second screen and take my work back home with me when I leave without needing to do some dumb **** like symlinking a dropbox folder. I can get some work done while I get some breakfast or some coffee, I can go work in a park if I want to (not uncommon here). Portability opens up lots of options, certainly moreso than upgrading RAM or hard drives in your desktop does.

I just don't find that's the case, not anymore. Not in the midrange, anyway. The price premium is gone.

Twice in 3 years, when pricing out a new midrange gaming desktop, a laptop has come in either the same price or even cheaper with the same specifications. I couldn't build a desktop with my current laptop specs at the same price when I bought it.

Also, upgrading is only really a viable strategy if you stay on the bleeding edge -- which is too damned expensive. In all my years owning gaming desktops, by the time I wanted to upgrade them, an upgrade was no longer viable, they were too far behind the curve, and everything needed to be replaced.

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