I agree completely.
The one thing a laptop is never going to surpass is the abilty to be modified and get some serious power. Not only that but you really can have the HDD capacity on a laptop than on a Desktop I for one have 4TB of HDD space in one of my machines alone.
Lets say I bought a £2000 laptop for gaming...12 months down the line it needs more GPU power and the upgrade cost will be phenomenal. I just slapped 2 ATI HD9750 cards in my machines at under £100 each. Id like to see anyone match that in a laptop.
Gamers also like the fact that its a BIG CHUNKY UV REACTIVE GLOWING status symbol. Everyone loves a light show...and now you can have one in your living room:P.
Any respectable Geek is going to have a cheap ass £200 laptop for wondering about using WiFi etc and a monster sitting under the desk for all the other work. I have yet to contemplate why anyone would try gaming on a laptop. The limitations are huge.
Just for reference:
I have 3 High Spec Gaming PC's - Me, The Wife and Son
2 Low end laptops for when your going somwhere or working wirelessly
1 Server (Not particularly powerful as far as servers go) Terminal Services/File Hosting etc
1 Mid Spec laptop for work
and alot of networking kit.
The Desktop will not die as anyone with any real enthusiasm for computing is going to keep them alive.
O ye and could someone please show me a laptop with a reasonable sized screen for playing games....24" +
get anough parts to actually get at least one machine that will boot. Then overclock the hell out of it and see how fast you can get it before it melts. Alternatively you could just see how fast you melt it and then try to beat your previous score. Actually rather fun especially if you experiment with the fridge or other cool substances. Be careful with liquid nitrogen tho.....
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I agree completely. The one thing a laptop is never going to surpass is the abilty to be modified and get some serious power. Not only that but you really can have the HDD capacity on a laptop than on a Desktop I for one have 4TB of HDD space in one of my machines alone. Lets say I bought a £2000 laptop for gaming...12 months down the line it needs more GPU power and the upgrade cost will be phenomenal. I just slapped 2 ATI HD9750 cards in my machines at under £100 each. Id like to see anyone match that in a laptop. Gamers also like the fact that its a BIG CHUNKY UV REACTIVE GLOWING status symbol. Everyone loves a light show...and now you can have one in your living room :P.
Any respectable Geek is going to have a cheap ass £200 laptop for wondering about using WiFi etc and a monster sitting under the desk for all the other work. I have yet to contemplate why anyone would try gaming on a laptop. The limitations are huge.
Just for reference:
I have 3 High Spec Gaming PC's - Me, The Wife and Son
2 Low end laptops for when your going somwhere or working wirelessly
1 Server (Not particularly powerful as far as servers go) Terminal Services/File Hosting etc
1 Mid Spec laptop for work
and alot of networking kit.
The Desktop will not die as anyone with any real enthusiasm for computing is going to keep them alive.
O ye and could someone please show me a laptop with a reasonable sized screen for playing games....24" +
get anough parts to actually get at least one machine that will boot. Then overclock the hell out of it and see how fast you can get it before it melts. Alternatively you could just see how fast you melt it and then try to beat your previous score. Actually rather fun especially if you experiment with the fridge or other cool substances. Be careful with liquid nitrogen tho.....