Calling Out All Laptop Gamers

Well, if you can play some games at home and another games away, congrats, but I can't. I wouldn't be able to play the same medieval total war II campaign I'm engaged at home, or play a quick L4D versus game with my friends (I use 3G wireless acess, so I'm online everywhere I go).

About the time, ER work is very erratic. Sometimes you pass all your 24-hour shift in the operating room and don't even know if it's night or day, but also in some days the thing you do the most is reading newspapers and exchange jokes with the other team members. Or game, in my case.

The point is, if your life is home>work/study, go for the desktop. If it is home =< work/study, and gaming is a must to you, I think the gaming laptop is justified.

And we're not touching the matter of LAN parties yet. If you have regular ones, that's another point for the gaming laptop.

Another point of view is that it helps to manage your work If you have only one working computer. When I was working on my master thesis, I had all my work in my laptop, and the backup on my external HD at home. If I had two computers, I'd never be really sure If I had in my hands the most up-to-date working copy, all the bibliography references, etc. And I could continue my work everywhere I was.

 

I agree with zeve... like I said before, I used to only buy Desktops, in fact I strongly disliked laptops because of their horrible bang-for-buck in comparison with desktop computers. But when we decided that we were going I decided that I would get a laptop for portability to be able to work and game on... thus I got the P-6831FX.

After using it for a quite a while now, I can say that I really enjoy laptops. The ability to use it on the couch, in bed, at the kitchen table, take it with me to friends or family, whatever; is great. I also like that basically all my files that are not on my external hard drive are always on one computer now, unlike when I had my desktop and my work laptop.

I think it all comes down to your computing habits, (although that could change if you went full-time laptop ), but if you are always at your desk, and that is where you do all your work and gaming, and don't see yourself taking a laptop around with you, then the obvious choice is desktop just for the better deal.

Oh, and I do play seriously on my laptop... IE FPS games like CS:S once in a while. Although it's not ideal, all I do when I want to play is have my mouse with mouse pad and headphones... I have gotten used to playing on the laptop keyboard. It's still not the MOST ideal situation, but I do play and enjoy it. In fact, my Saitek Eclipse II keyboard has been sitting collecting dust for close to a year now

 

VPN makes all your computers like one anywhere in the world , i left the lan party untouched because i didnt want to get into that. I much rather take my main rig to a lan party. Nothing like rolling into the lan with an awesome rig and having people poke at it its like going to a car meet or track day. As for your master thesis and all stuff that ISNT gaming, why do you need a gaming laptop for that? In your case i can understand since you have 24-72 hour shifts (my brother in law works in ICU so i understand) and you spend just as much time away from home as you do at home in blocks and the hospital becomes like a second home. But if you do the majority of your gaming at home. Desktop + mid-range notebook > gaming laptop.

 

I wouldn't. It's just more pratical to have it all in only one gadget. Why would I need to have one computer for one use and other for another use if I could have it all in one thing? If I would have a desktop for strictly gaming, I'd have a Xbox 360 or a PS3. After all, the biggest plus PCs have against the modern consoles is that they are not only gaming machines.

About moving your desktop to lan parties, I thinks it's a no-no. Desktops aren't made for this, or they would be laptops. not counting the weight/cables/monitor thing. I'm 40 years old, I just don't want to mind about those things anymore! I carry enough weight lugging around my Warhammer 40K miniatures!