Kherr wrote:I don't know what people are smoking, but my laptop (before and after repairs) is a gaming beast. I can run WoW on ULTRA in 1080p and still get an average of 72 FPS. I run Dead Island in 1080p on Max settings and get an average of 50 FPS. I run unreal Tournament 3 in max settings and pull over 60 FPS high enough I have to turn on VSync. Screen tearing is exceedingly common on my laptop gaming rig. Desktops are nice, but they aren't portable for going over to your friend's house for a LAN party, and laptops take up less space. I can deal with my laptop weighing 8.7 lbs so I can take it everywhere I go. A simple laptop bag and everything is gravy.
BTW, with everything set to fancy and render distance of far on minecraft running a 128x128 tex pack I'm pulling over 100 FPS without VSync on.
Desktops are only for EXTREME gaming needs and those who need ABSOLUTE RAW POWER. My laptop does fine in cooling with it's dual exhaust system. Oh, and they are halfway up-gradable, thanks. Not completely not up-gradable. I put an extra 8 GB of RAM in mine to total it out at 16 GB.
I don't need more than this beast. :3
I'm glad you found your way with this crusty. Hope they enjoy (and love you for life). :3
yeah, for some people who are on the move a lot, a laptop would be a clear winner.. if you're rarely at home to use it there. As far as the occasional LAN party or whatnot, they have mATX rigs, or even the LANboy air case (still bigger than a laptop, but easily portable nonetheless) Even my monster case is portable, having a handle, but it is heavy! As far as gaming, a laptop is not even comparable to a desktop, and the games you listed are quite low on requirements, WoW being 8 years old, and the updates since then not raising requirements too much (people can play that and minecraft on non-gaming laptops) As far as some of the newer games, say BattleField 3 or Far Cry 3, I don't think your results will be soo nice. Not saying laptops don't have their merits if you HAVE to be real portable, but for newer games to run on good settings will require either top of the line laptop GPUs or midrange desktop. A 660m will not perform even close to a 560Ti, and a 560Ti is nowhere close to 'Extreme Gaming'.
Not saying a laptop is NOT upgradeable either, but it can be a moderately complex problem for swapping something more than RAM or HDD. Need a new GPU? Who even sells those if you can replace it? (I don't know whether you can do it honestly) motherboard bad.. can you replace those? (again, I have no clue)I would, for gaming purposes, consider a laptop more similar to a console than to a desktop.
edit: also... laptop keyboards are bad, and touchpads are 100% horrid.
