What to do?

Coshy91 · May 3, 2020

Well let me first give you the low down of what I have! I have what you can call a really outdated gaming PC I have 8gb Ram with a 2nd gen i7 and a Nvidia 660GTX and I'm rocking a standard def old flat screen.

Now my issue is this do I build myself a new desktop including new monitor and keyboard or do I buy a gaming laptop? Now normally I'd say desktop but hear me out! I travel between 3 places my mums and my dads and my girlfriend's place and I work 7 days in a row. There isn't space for a desktop at either my mums or my girlfriend's place so if I went desktop this would limit me to less time to use my desktop. However the idea of laptop is alien to me as I always believed laptops were a terrible idea due to not been able to upgrade them like you can a desktop. But I'll be able to get more use out of a laptop so I come to you LTT army to help me as I am stuck on what to do and ask what would you do?

Buy a desktop and spend similar to what a laptop is going to cost however only get to use it every now and again or buy a laptop and use it more often but not be able to keep it along as the desktop? Please help I'm stuck with what to do.

The latop I'm looking at is this one.

https://www.ebuyer.com/937183-razer-blade-pro-17-core-i7-16gb-512gb-ssd-rtx-2070-17-3-rz09-03147w02-r3w1

Takumidesh · May 3, 2020

You seem to be the type of person who, once you have something you hold on to it for a while, as in, you don't feel the need to upgrade as soon as something comes out. I would suggest a laptop in this case. the portability is a good tradeoff for the upgradeability.

If you buy a desktop, by the time you want to upgrade, there will be a new cpu socket, higher speed/capacity ram, a new usb standard blah blah blah anyway. So you end up replacing half of the computer anyway.

Of course this is all assuming you DO want to hold on to the next pc you get for a while, If you are looking to incrementally upgrade every few months or year, then a desktop is ofcourse the way to go.

Coshy91 · May 3, 2020

7 minutes ago, Takumidesh said:

You seem to be the type of person who, once you have something you hold on to it for a while, as in, you don't feel the need to upgrade as soon as something comes out. I would suggest a laptop in this case. the portability is a good tradeoff for the upgradeability.

If you buy a desktop, by the time you want to upgrade, there will be a new cpu socket, higher speed/capacity ram, a new usb standard blah blah blah anyway. So you end up replacing half of the computer anyway.

Of course this is all assuming you DO want to hold on to the next pc you get for a while, If you are looking to incrementally upgrade every few months or year, then a desktop is ofcourse the way to go.

Thanks for the reply I wasn't able to upgrade before due to monetary constraints which now thankfully aren't an issue so would aim to incrementally upgrade here is the build I'm looking at doing for a desktop If I were to go that route. But your right I do like to get ny money's worth however I am hoping to be on a maximum 4 year upgrade cycle.