Honestly as a man currently using a laptop for all his gaming/general use needs i wouldn't repeat that choice. Sure the mobility is great but if i had spent the same amount on a desktop i'd be getting much better performance. I mean forget the fact that you don't get equal performance for equal price when spending your PC budget. There's more than lower specs that cause laptops (or mine at least) to be the poorer platform.
The combination of Vista and a pre-purchased laptop lead me to WAAAY more active processes and RAM usage than my homebuilt desktop, even after pruning. And of course you don't ACTUALLY geta copy of your OS anymore, just a restore disc. It just feels like you have less control overall. And hell battery life, especially in a high-end gaming laptop, is so short nowadays you're going to be tethered to a wall socket either way you go.
I bought this laptop as a replacement for my old desktop and have only had it a year but i'm already planning on when i'll be replacing it with a new desktop machine. Which just means it's sped up my insatiable appetite for speed if anything.
No, but seriously. I've said it before and I'll say it again. Don't you think that computing power will get to a point that you'll really only need more power to say, run an advanced AI or something. The most computing power right now has shown itself to be more than sufficient for the most advanced tasks, will we reach a head in this? If so, then desktops and laptops may even up even more.
Honestly as a man currently using a laptop for all his gaming/general use needs i wouldn't repeat that choice. Sure the mobility is great but if i had spent the same amount on a desktop i'd be getting much better performance. I mean forget the fact that you don't get equal performance for equal price when spending your PC budget. There's more than lower specs that cause laptops (or mine at least) to be the poorer platform.
The combination of Vista and a pre-purchased laptop lead me to WAAAY more active processes and RAM usage than my homebuilt desktop, even after pruning. And of course you don't ACTUALLY geta copy of your OS anymore, just a restore disc. It just feels like you have less control overall. And hell battery life, especially in a high-end gaming laptop, is so short nowadays you're going to be tethered to a wall socket either way you go.
I bought this laptop as a replacement for my old desktop and have only had it a year but i'm already planning on when i'll be replacing it with a new desktop machine. Which just means it's sped up my insatiable appetite for speed if anything.
No, but seriously. I've said it before and I'll say it again. Don't you think that computing power will get to a point that you'll really only need more power to say, run an advanced AI or something. The most computing power right now has shown itself to be more than sufficient for the most advanced tasks, will we reach a head in this? If so, then desktops and laptops may even up even more.
DOOOOOOOOOD, Hamlet. one might compare the superfluousness of this quandry to Hamlet's own, recounted in that famous speech.