Laptop vs PC!!

[shlokgtn7100]

Hey,

with the advent of pascal gpu's ,it is now possible to cram full desktop class gpu's into laptops 

(some also have sli),then where does it put the PC? Is there any real benefit to build a PC (except price & upgrade path), especially mITX?? Thus I would like the answer from the community,

Thanking you in advance and requesting to please contribute your two cents in this matter.

[Oswin]

pc parts you can choose yourself, laptops...... maybe, but only some

[courtiousdoge]

5 minutes ago, shlokgtn7100 said:

Hey,

with the advent of pascal gpu's ,it is now possible to cram full desktop class gpu's into laptops 

(some also have sli),then where does it put the PC? Is there any real benefit to build a PC (except price & upgrade path), especially mITX?? Thus I would like the answer from the community,

Thanking you in advance and requesting to please contribute your two cents in this matter.

see with laptops you cannot upgrade you have to buy a new one with every new gen if you want 60+fps at ultra 16x anthrotopic (wrong spelling) filtering and hairworks and tesselation

you cannot 

mod the laptop

most of them are really heavy 

less customization 

shit keyboards(most of the time)
bad cooling and thermal throttling toooooooooo much especially if you get a high end one 

shit monitors for the price 

but all of these can be avoided if you research on the laptop you want to buy

 

 

[matrix07012]

The notebook versions have slightly lower clocks.

Watercooling.

More space for expansions.

Ability to change the mobo and CPU.

Better thermals and overclocking headroom.

Better price/performance ratio.

[courtiousdoge]

please reload the page i edited my answer alot

[belfouf]

for a laptop to be as good as a PC, it will cost twice the price, but yeah, you can even find 1080 SLI in laptops today

[shlokgtn7100]

To add to my question are there any PC exclusive hardware/features??

[Guuhan]

4 minutes ago, shlokgtn7100 said:

To add to my question are there any PC exclusive hardware/features??

4 way SLI/Crossfire. A laptop nowadays has everything a PC can have. G-sync, desktop class gpu's, mechanical keyboards etc. Some laptops even approaching pc performance for about the same price.

[Mi26]

There is still advantages to go with pc

-ability to upgrade down the line 

-self choose what part go into the build

- thermals

- relatively cheaper 

However laptop does have its advantage

- small and compact 

- some laptops allow selection of certain parts 

- some laptops allow the change of CPU or GPU 

[Sauron]

If you want to pay 3 times as much to have desktop performance in a 6kg laptop enclosure with a screen, go ahead.

 

Also, no upgrading, limited parts selection, poor cooling.

[manikyath]

A pc is upgradable,

is 'free of choice' as in not limited to factory-chosen combinations of hardware (i have 20-something brands in my pc),

a pc is REPAIRABLE (that's in caps for good reason),

a pc can have powerful hardware while staying quiet,

a pc is meant to live on a desk, a laptop is very much not, if you've had both you'll notice the differences,

A pc generally has more connectivity options (more usb, dual nic mobo's, more displays)

Laptop variants of even the desktop cards are often tweaked down at least a bit to fit within the desired power target

Desktops just plain have the room to do things propperly, everyone knows sodimms are a 'solution' for laptops that's nothubg more than a 'solution', and the great majority of laptops has just two, if not hard soldered to the mobo.

A pc is cleanable. Have some dust in your laptop? That'll be a full afternoon of disassembly, have some dust in your pc? Just grab a can of air and pop the sidepanel off.

 

Lifespan is probably a thing as well, together with the ability to 'rebuild' a desktop into something else. (Gaming rig no longer runs games good enough? It is now your htpc)

[shlokgtn7100]

From the above discussion,I think we can agree there are some things that a PC is better than a laptop,but we cannot overrule the fact that there have to be new cutting-edge advancements from intel and Nvidia and also AMD that are exclusive to desktops (not feasible in laptops) only time can tell the fate of the PC