Problem 1: $800 is not a budget price.
Problem 2: $800 is well within "just get a desktop" range.
Problem 3: €1,100 is about $1,250, which blows.
Although honestly if you really need a laptop exclusively and you really cannot pay more than $800, you could definitely get much worse specs for that price. I paid $1,000 3 years ago and got everything here except the newer graphics.
It's an Acer though so it'll last for approximately 30 seconds before things start breaking horribly.
[QUOTE=Trekintosh;52275933]It's an Acer though so it'll last for approximately 30 seconds before things start breaking horribly.[/QUOTE]
Honestly I have two shit ass $150 Acer netbooks from 2010 that have lasted pretty long. One is still my mom's main computer, and the other runs Plex on my mini projector.
[QUOTE=Snowmew;52277646]Honestly I have two shit ass $150 Acer netbooks from 2010 that have lasted pretty long. One is still my mom's main computer, and the other runs Plex on my mini projector.[/QUOTE]
Do you travel with them often, or do they live at home? AFAIK Acer machines aren't that unreliable in general; they just have poor build quality.
I had a fairly high-end Acer laptop in college, so I was walking around and taking the bus with it 5 days a week. It was in a padded bag, and I wasn't particularly rough with it, but it couldn't handle that amount of swinging and light bumping. It broke down and I sent in for repairs three times over, until eventually the warranty ran out, the screen cracked, and I decided to call it quits. Now, years later, my brother uses it + an external monitor for casual gaming and it runs quite well.
My replacement laptop was an Asus with very similar specs and price. After a couple years of the exact same conditions that the Acer broke down in, I've had zero hardware issues.
Tbh I could get one of these when I'm abroad for masters.
Cba with having 2 computers (desktop & laptop) til I get a place of my own.
[QUOTE=Trekintosh;52275933]It's an Acer though so it'll last for approximately 30 seconds before things start breaking horribly.[/QUOTE]
I have an Acer Chromebook for school. The screws on the bottom of the case fall out on their own. The webcams spontaneously stop working. Drop it and there's a chance the internal video cord will come loose.
[QUOTE=Snowmew;52274360]Problem 1: $800 is not a budget price.[/QUOTE]
It is for laptops that can run games.
[QUOTE=Snowmew;52274360]Problem 2: $800 is well within "just get a desktop" range.[/QUOTE]
What are you even talking about, laptops are always quite a bit more expensive than desktops with comparable hardware
I always say never get a gaming laptop, even for college. Unless you're on business a lot or travelling often it's better just to get a desktop for home use and a standard laptop for on-the-go work.
[QUOTE=Benstokes;52284698]Do you travel with them often, or do they live at home? AFAIK Acer machines aren't that unreliable in general; they just have poor build quality.[/QUOTE]
I used it as a daily driver (under protest...) for 2 years, but now it just sits under my nightstand. Admittedly I can just feel from the build quality that it could fall apart at any moment, but it hasn't so far, and I beat it up in my backpack that whole time. I think I threw it at a wall once too.
[QUOTE=Lolkork;52284747]1. That's as budget as it gets for a laptop with a GTX gpu.
2. That's dumb, people get gaming laptops because they want to be able to move it.[/QUOTE]
If you're looking for a gaming laptop with a discrete GTX card then I hate to break it to you but you are not in what most people would consider the class of buyers looking to buy on a budget.
I'd say that anything around $500 is more "gamer on a budget" land.
[QUOTE=Laserbeams;52285634]It is for laptops that can run games.
What are you even talking about, laptops are always quite a bit more expensive than desktops with comparable hardware[/QUOTE]
Which is my point - if you are on a budget, you are wasting your money buying a laptop for gaming unless you really need the portability. This has been a pretty basic concept for at least a decade now. And yet people will always bitch and moan saying they [i]need[/i] a gaming laptop when they probably won't take it anywhere and actually game with it - I've owned two gaming laptops and honestly I only used the "gaming" aspect outside my desk maybe once a year.
I get that $800 is cheap for a hardcore GTX gaming laptop, but here's the thing - if you have $800 to blow on a computer, not only can you get better performance out of a desktop, but you are definitely not a budget buyer. That's like saying a $1,500 desktop was built "on a budget" because my budget was $1,500.
Also consider the fact that once your laptop is obsolete, except for RAM and maybe storage if you're lucky, there is no way you will be able to upgrade it without buying a whole new laptop. I've been running on the same desktop essentially for 8 years now with periodic upgrades. The cost of ownership is just so much lower. If you're a budget buyer, you should not be investing in a gaming laptop.
not everyone wants a desktop. laptops are better in some respects because you can move them. not everyone plays video games 24/7 and cares about the best possible build for the lowest price, some people just want to be able to play games occasionally without dropping a small fortune.
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also $800 isn't a lot of money for a computer, especially because people tend to spend multiple hours a day on their computer. if you're a frequent computer user and break the cost down of owning a computer, it breaks down to pennies an hour.
[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;52286447]not everyone wants a desktop. laptops are better in some respects because you can move them. not everyone plays video games 24/7 and cares about the best possible build for the lowest price, some people just want to be able to play games occasionally without dropping a small fortune.
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also $800 isn't a lot of money for a computer, especially because people tend to spend multiple hours a day on their computer. if you're a frequent computer user and break the cost down of owning a computer, it breaks down to pennies an hour.[/QUOTE]
That's really the [i]only[/i] benefit of a laptop, is that you can take it wherever. Not really much else. But where are you going all the time that you need to play video games? On a laptop screen with a laptop keyboard, no less?
I mean if you really value the portability aspect then feel free to pay the premium. But while $800 isn't a small fortune, it is still not a budget price for a computer. Maybe 10 years ago, but not today.
[QUOTE=Snowmew;52286776]That's really the [I]only[/I] benefit of a laptop, is that you can take it wherever. Not really much else. But where are you going all the time that you need to play video games? On a laptop screen with a laptop keyboard, no less?
I mean if you really value the portability aspect then feel free to pay the premium. But while $800 isn't a small fortune, it is still not a budget price for a computer. Maybe 10 years ago, but not today.[/QUOTE]
i dont game remotely, i just have one laptop and i bring it places. whenever i visit my family i bring my laptop so i can "work from home."
the laptop allows me to take my work wherever, it just so happens that it also has a graphics card.
it's also convenient cause i can hook it up to my tv or bring a large library of media with me when i travel.
[QUOTE=Snowmew;52286776]That's really the [I]only[/I] benefit of a laptop, is that you can take it wherever. Not really much else. But where are you going all the time that you need to play video games? On a laptop screen with a laptop keyboard, no less?
I mean if you really value the portability aspect then feel free to pay the premium. But while $800 isn't a small fortune, it is still not a budget price for a computer. Maybe 10 years ago, but not today.[/QUOTE]
Well, yeah? The entire point of paying the premium $800 is that you have a portable computer that's capable of playing games with you. They're not going to charge the bare minimum of each part separately totalled together, what else are you expecting? If you want to have a portable computer on which you can game of course it's going to cost a bit more than it would to build a desktop yourself, you're paying for convenience. For a gaming laptop, $800 is much cheaper than what I've seen out there. For a regular laptop? No. But it's not a regular laptop now, is it
-snip I'm blind-
Laptops are great for lack of storage space. my desk doubles up as a dining table, medicine cabinet, TV shelf, workstation etc. A desktop would have to be mounted on the ceiling due to my current room layout, whereas my laptop just gets folded and throw onto my bed when room is required.
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