PC or Laptop

[Roshan Jay]

I was a PC user for 7 years & switch to laptop in this January and I'm so loving it. With a good monitor I can build a great laptop setup and it is so convenient. Which one is your choice?

[Jurrunio]

PC. I have a tablet already, so I don't need a laptop

[M.A.P]

Just now, Roshan Jay said:

I was a PC user for 7 years & switch to laptop in this January and I'm so loving it. With a good monitor I can build a great laptop setup and it is so convenient. Which one is your choice?

It depends on your usage. If you want portability, you need a laptop. And you should mention the budget as members here will try give you good options with best price : value ratio. 

[Roshan Jay]

Just now, Jurrunio said:

PC. I have a tablet already, so I don't need a laptop

Please vote

[M.A.P]

2 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

PC. I have a tablet already, so I don't need a laptop

If he does his work in windows then he needs a windows tablet. According to my knowledge tablet market is dominated by android and a bit by IOS, win tablets market share is very low so if he is having a tablet it might be IOS or android as he is hacing windows pc already. 

[You_are_a_cunt]

PC is the default choice, but I do use my laptop when travelling or when I just want to go grab a covfefe and work on stuff

[Trustadz]

I use both, together with synergy sometimes.

[LUUD18]

Both. They have totally different use cases. I use my pc when I am at home. My laptop when I am away.

[GER_T4IGA]

Not playing games on the go (EDIT: Maybe just becasue i can't Might be chicken and egg thing). LAN parties have fallen of grace, and coming from a gt540m playing BFBC2 a gtx770 was a magical upgrade. Only being able to watch other people play when I am on holiday is infinitely painful though thinking about getting an XPS 15 9560. I would only really buy it to have something more fun to work with than the garbage HP ProBook 650 that I am currently typing on druing my economics lecture + some gaming power on the go but the laptop prices are just to outrageous compared to their perfromance if this is just a 'want'-upgrade.

[grimreeper132]

Comparing Desktops and laptops is like comparing an apple and an orange, they are two entirely separate things (yes they can both run programmes but they are entirely different)

 

Desktops are for two main situations,

 

situation 1 is for people who need power, wither of a fully clocked 7700K (yes I think there is laptops with that CPU but I will get onto that in a moment if I remember) or a 6 core+ (yes again I know they are coming but shush they anit here yet, and it doesn't sound like they will be overclockable and there isn't a 10 core+ coming so shush that won't happen for a while) this power is needed for tasks like CAD modeling/simulation, heavily multithreaded tasks, heavily single threaded tasks (as a 7700K is about 40% faster than it's laptop equivalent) or gaming (more on that in a sec)

 

Situation 2 is cost, a desktop costs a hell of a lot less than a laptop, as a laptop costs more than a desktop

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834861167 i5 quad core, with a 1050 4GB

or you could build this https://pcpartpicker.com/list/gkRwbj R5 quad core, which is faster (65% on multi threaded, and 13% on single) double the RAM slightly better graphics, good PSU, good board with overclocking.

 

Laptops are for one main task and that is people who need portability and they are very good at that, but they aren't as powerful and when they are (thinking of some of the over the top SLI 1080 systems) they might as well be desktop as they are about as potable as a desktop in size weight, hell some even come with suticases, laptops and desktops are entirely different for entirely different purposes you can't compare them