I second using Woot!! For purchases, I have been buying from them since before Amazon owned them and have never had an issue
Gaming laptop or gaming desktop?
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Desktop all the way. But if you have money to burn, then a laptop is nice for the obvious portability. If you really have money to burn, then get both 
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Well if money is burning a hole in their pocket they can always build their own laptop, some of them can even be built using desktop processors. . But that’s talking serious money
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In agreement with Desktop, just depends on if you have a requirement for it to be portable or not. Will you be using it in an office environment or wanting to complete tasks anytime / anywhere (within limitations)
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Well I am usually on the move so I need it to be potable, but for the difference in price and power, I just don’t know (And yes I am looking for the cheapest option also)
Ok, you need to think about when you will most likely be doing the power hungry tasks on your device (Graphic intensive gaming, video editing etc). Are you likely to be doing these tasks when sitting on a train? In a public space?
If you are more likely to simply to browsing the web, doing admin and such on the move, then buy a high powered desktop, and a cheaper laptop for on the move.
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Believe it or not, Walmart is actually a pretty good place to look for a gaming laptop. Their contracted sellers database (think amazon and 3rd party sellers) sometimes has some nice deals. A few years ago I managed to score an IBuypower high end computer for $500. Had a warranty issue with the power supply and the tech was blown away I got it essentially 60% off. Just have to set a price point and look around, there are deals. A lot of the gaming laptops are all similar in specs (unlike desktops where its all over the place)
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I’d say… Desktop.
Why?
All my mates that are gamers, use desktop. Mainly that a laptop with the same.power costs a lot.more and your generally sat a desk/table to.play, so no advantage.to a laptop…
The price of a decent gaming laptop like Alienware is loads, where as you can buy a decent gaming keyboard, wireless mouse (most I know use them.larger roller ball mices!) And sound … We’ll all the components for less.
Plus upgrading the video card, sound card, and ram, is cheaper than laptop sized.
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As a sub note…
There are all-in-one computers. More portable than a desktop, as it’s all in the screen.
Also, what games are you wanting to play?
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Really depends on your needs:
- Grab and go: then laptop for portability.
- Grab and go: mini ITX custom built or bought + cheap $300 LCD
- Powerhouse: desktop + a nice 34" curved LCD with GSYNC
What’s your budget? What’s your requirements?
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About $500 - $700 And I need it to be able to run Adobe Photo Shop, Blender, Maya, Adobe premiere, And games like
Fortnite Battle Royale, Mine-craft, Battle grounds, Grand theft auto. ETC.
I play my games on ps4
Do any of you play fortnite?
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PCs have other long-term advantages. As noted by @ndalby you can peicemeal upgrade a Tower PC type over the years, incremental changes like faster / larger RAM, faster SSD, faster graphics card, and then replace the motherboard and cpu and then replace the components attached, and ride a sweetspot curver over years, so long as you get a big enough case to handle popular motherboards.
Further the wear+tear components like keyboard where grime and accidents leads to worsening keys is a cheap part, the tower out of the way, mouse similar, and even USB ports can be on a daughter card you can replace.
The issue is the portability.
One way around the portability is to RDP into your desktop from a lightweight lower power cheaper device and remotely control the application which needs high performance. You can port-forward the RDP port. Personally I use a small Raspberry Pi device and do RDP over SSH and forward the SSH port off the router, then all traffic is encrypted.
You can also use Wake on Lan to allow your power hungry PC to go to sleep and you wake it up via a command off the Raspberry Pi.
That portable device can then be sat a Chromebook or lower end Windows 10 device. Chromebook does RDP badly out the box but you can put into Developer Mode then use Crouton to run Linux then rdp client.
A powerful laptop is expensive, doubly so if you drop it and break it, and repairs and upgrades expensive and usually impossible if not immediately then soon.
Typed on an Android tablet to which I can RDP to a Windows VM running Visio and on which I do ffmpeg media recoding.
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I would not recommend such"all in one" computers.
Yes, thees might be a little bit easier to transport.
BUT :
We had such ones in the university I was working for.
(I remember these were from LENOVO). If there was a broken part, it was not easy to change and of course you need exactly!! the same model of this part as replacemwent. In a usual desktop computers you can change components more easily und upgrade these of course.
The same thoughts has nigelhealy. I fully agree with him!
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Do you need monitor, mouse and keyboard?
Do you have any components currently I.e a ssd or storage drives?
I’ll price you best bang for buck once I know that.
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Yup, got everything but the computer, Mouse, Keyboard, Monitor, Speaker ETC.
I prefer desktop as it’s easier to upgrade.
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https://pcpartpicker.com/list/HxxQV6
Something like that.
6 core 12 thread cpu for your blender needs. Overclockable via the B350 motherboard for squeezing more out in the future when you can afford a better cooler.
1050ti for your gaming/Photoshop needs
Only 8GB ram via 1 stick so easy upgrade in future when prices are more reasonable.
No OS however, so depending on your technical know how this may need to be added, you can get licence keys from various places with varying degrees of legality.
I used to prefer gaming laptops. If you are going considering desktop then you also need a good gaming monitor as well. I know PCs are easy to upgrade but I like portable devices more.
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