<p>who the heck cares, if you’re spending your time in college playing video games on your desktop you are a loser and have no social life whatsoever. </p>
<p>o yea and to add to the original discussion, i’d say more kids will have laptops cause it saves space in the dorms and most kids won’t need a laptop for more than just internet surfing or word processing and that sort of stuff (at least I know that’s all I’ll need my laptop for).</p>
<p>I believe that around 75% of students at UVA have laptops.</p>
<p>BigRed25 why is that.</p>
<p>The 2nd largest tier of people to buy video games are college students, only 2nd to 27-38 year olds.</p>
<p>so you tell me.</p>
<p>Ok, so maybe Matthew is wrong about laptops. But man… the biggest idiot coming out of this whole thing was Vincent:</p>
<p>quotes:
mavin is corrent, whil you may think it comes close MatthewM04
and ur still a noob becasue u bought a dell.
like i said your a looser who doeant believe in America and should leave/</p>
<p>Learn to communicate properly before you go calling someone ignorant.</p>
<p>you read it fine, so there is no problem.</p>
<p>Kid, lol, he made 7 mistakes in 3 lines. =p</p>
<p>I stand by my point that your computing purposes will not be hampered if you get a high-end laptop. If you’re looking for the best gaming computer the world can offer, it’s kind of pointless because your machine will be outdated the next month.</p>
<p>Then you just buy somthing new.</p>
<p>True, it will be outdated, but it’s still significantly better than any laptop bought at the same time. :)</p>
<p>Yes, you go buy your fancy schmancy desktop, and when you want to use a computer in class or outside, tough luck.</p>
<p>That’s why I’m bringing my laptop AND my desktop :)</p>
<p>Matthew is right in the fact that his laptop is more powerfull than most desktops. Most desktops arent built as gaming machines and simply dont have the power (they usually have a big cpu and not a lot else).</p>
<p>He is somewhat correct with the 30fps thing but is missing something. 30fps is definately enough to create fluid motion but it will is incredibly suceptable to tearing compared to an FPS higher than (or locked to) the refresh rate. a better FPS is 60 which eliminates the flicker issues and keepsmotion fluid. Also, if you have an LCD or a slow-set monitor, anything over 60 will not be displayed so it doesnt really matter.</p>
<p>Sure, the fancy desktop willget outdated but so will the laptop (and the desktop is easier to upgrade). The person who is actually going top of the line gaming (vast minority) is more likely to keep their system upgraded to or near to the top. I’ve never been a fan of the desktop replacement laptops, but there are laptops out there with the power to play the latest games and those that are coming soon at reasonable speeds. Now, how you are going to play them without setting it down on the desk and getting a mouse and a fixed internet connection…thats up to you (but I would rather just have a desktop).</p>
<p>I’m bringing both and I recognize that desktop doesnt mean it actually has to sit on your desk. That tower definately is not going to be taking up desk space next to the monitor :)</p>
<p>ottothecow, just wow.</p>
<p>I think Mavin will agree with me on this.</p>
<p>laptops are not ment for gaming. desktops are made for gaming and it is gaming and gaming alone that fuels and pushes ahead the home user desktop market.</p>
<p>without gaming on desktops there would be zero need for Nvidia and ATi to even exist.</p>
<p>Just wow wow wow</p>
<p>Did you type that wrong or are you actually serious.</p>
<p>not many people at my school had laptops. out of the 5 people in my apartment, two of us had laptops. other apartments were similar, maybe even 1 or 0 laptops per apartment. i’m sure that will start to change now that our school is going wireless.</p>
<p>vincent you are an idiot.</p>
<p>gaming is what ati and nvidia use to promote their top end. its like nike giving shoes to pro athletes or subaru preparing rally cars. Most people dont buy a Group N subaru but you can bet that it sells a lot of WRX’s. nVidia makes a LOT of integrated graphics chipsets and both companies make a lot of multimedia and business cards that sell WAY more than their gaming cards (which is more of a botique market).</p>
<p>Gaming is not the driving force behind the desktop, the driving force is making better chips to sell to large business users who will feel the need to upgrade. The advancements in desktop chips apply equally to laptops, I never said laptops were made specifically for gaming but neither are desktops (consoles are made specifically for gaming). Both machines are capable of it (desktops are better) but neither one is driven by gaming.</p>
<p>I swear i said Hone user,</p>
<p>and yes it is,</p>
<p>Like Bill Gates said. 350 MHz is more than enogh and all we will ever really need on a pc.</p>
<p>you did say home user but guess what, the markets are dynamically linked and share the EXACT SAME products. </p>
<p>And no, billy boy didnt say that. He said that 640k is more memory than anyone would ever need. This quote does not prove your point at ALL. It simply says that he was wrong and computers will have to advance because someone will always be able to use the resources to the max (and dont say this is done by games, there are many parts of the computer that are not maxed out by games).</p>
<p>Um yes he did.</p>
<p>thats strange, google doesnt seem to agree with you but you could have easily confused it with the 640k being enough since google immediately recognizes that quote.</p>
<p>If you are a gamer with an unlimited budget don’t waste your time reading this post, but otherwise:</p>
<p>first question is do you need an XP pro or home machine? This is a college requirement. Colleges that have unified tiered security systems will require pro, otherwise home is ok. If your budget is under $1000 and you need a pro machine best bet is a toshiba m30x.</p>
<p>Most cheap laptops aremade by compol or trigem. Avoid cheap gateways, avertechs, acers medions and other off brands that load up double layered dvd writers and hi capacity hard drives in cheapy laptops. They are made by trigem and have no-name components (liton optical drives, fujisto hard drives that are junk. If you get a cheap hp or toshiba celeron m machine, goose the memory to the max. and delete all the free and trial software on the machine as soon as you get it. If you get a a tablet keep in mind that screens require reseating every year or two.</p>
<p>Avoid instore extended warrantys–no matter what the salesman says.–If you get one get it from the manufacturer on its web site and get the express service. If your budget is high, I recomend an ibm think pad or toshiba portege or tecra. wanna know how good they are–just cruise ebay and see how many 4 year old machines are still being sold.</p>
<p>mm i have lite-on optical drives. they work nicely.</p>