Laptops used to be extremely inferior to desktops regarding performance and price, a desktop that costs $1000 several years ago had 2-3x the performance of a laptop for the same price. Today, that is changing, laptops are now powerful enough for every day users to do all that they desire with only a few hundred dollars extra than a heavy desktop. This makes laptops more appealing, whether a computer dependent person needs a very portable system to the average user that only moves his laptop from the desk once a year.
Even in the high performance arena, laptops are now starting to get powerful enough to start competing against desktops. Just look at Nvidia's new Maxwell GPUs. Nvidia claims that it's GTX 980M has up to 80% of the same gaming performance as it's desktop brother, the GTX 980. (See the bottom of the tutorial for source.)
And these gaming laptops are even cheaper, look at laptops with the GTX 780M when they came out. They were at least $2500-$2700, now were seeing laptops with GTX 970M and GTX 980M for as low as $1500.
So, if laptops are getting cheaper and are so good these days, why get a desktop?
Even though laptops are now getting more popular, desktops still have one advantage that no laptop will have for at least a few years, flexibility and upgradability.
With desktops, you can customize it to what ever you want, you can add liquid cooling, led lighting, more graphics cards, more powerful cpus. Basically anything you want or need.
And for the extreme performance arena, they are the only once capable of running 4 graphics cards, octo core cpus. Basically, if you want the fastest of the fastest, desktops are the only ones that can provide you with that.
So to sum up: Laptops are now replacing desktops for the average user, and are starting to get just as high performance as their desktop brethren. However, desktops are the only ones that can provide the best of the best in pure performance, and are the only ones to offer complete upgradeability. (And as if now, they still have a better price to performance ratio than laptops, but I believe this will be going away soon.)
Pt. 2 What are YOUR needs.
The best way i find to help people on the forums is to ask them a list of questions as to what they want in a computer.
So what is the most important part of the computer you want/need?
Suits Laptops:
Portability
Mainstream performance
Suits Desktops:
Very good to extreme performance
Highly Upgradable
Customization
As you have noticed, i did not list price or budget-friendly in any of those categories. That is because their is a laptop and a desktop in every type of budget.
If you can find which category is your top priority in what your pc requires, then that will significantly help you in deciding between the two.
I hope this helps, and if you have any trouble with choosing a computer or would like to point out any problems with my tutorial then shoot me a PM.
Thanks for reading,
TechyInAZ
Source: http
/www.anandtech.com/show/8585/nvidia-geforce-gtx-980m-970m-mobile-maxwell-gm204/2
Even in the high performance arena, laptops are now starting to get powerful enough to start competing against desktops. Just look at Nvidia's new Maxwell GPUs. Nvidia claims that it's GTX 980M has up to 80% of the same gaming performance as it's desktop brother, the GTX 980. (See the bottom of the tutorial for source.)
And these gaming laptops are even cheaper, look at laptops with the GTX 780M when they came out. They were at least $2500-$2700, now were seeing laptops with GTX 970M and GTX 980M for as low as $1500.
So, if laptops are getting cheaper and are so good these days, why get a desktop?
Even though laptops are now getting more popular, desktops still have one advantage that no laptop will have for at least a few years, flexibility and upgradability.
With desktops, you can customize it to what ever you want, you can add liquid cooling, led lighting, more graphics cards, more powerful cpus. Basically anything you want or need.
And for the extreme performance arena, they are the only once capable of running 4 graphics cards, octo core cpus. Basically, if you want the fastest of the fastest, desktops are the only ones that can provide you with that.
So to sum up: Laptops are now replacing desktops for the average user, and are starting to get just as high performance as their desktop brethren. However, desktops are the only ones that can provide the best of the best in pure performance, and are the only ones to offer complete upgradeability. (And as if now, they still have a better price to performance ratio than laptops, but I believe this will be going away soon.)
Pt. 2 What are YOUR needs.
The best way i find to help people on the forums is to ask them a list of questions as to what they want in a computer.
So what is the most important part of the computer you want/need?
Suits Laptops:
Portability
Mainstream performance
Suits Desktops:
Very good to extreme performance
Highly Upgradable
Customization
As you have noticed, i did not list price or budget-friendly in any of those categories. That is because their is a laptop and a desktop in every type of budget.
If you can find which category is your top priority in what your pc requires, then that will significantly help you in deciding between the two.
I hope this helps, and if you have any trouble with choosing a computer or would like to point out any problems with my tutorial then shoot me a PM.
Thanks for reading,
TechyInAZ
Source: http
/www.anandtech.com/show/8585/nvidia-geforce-gtx-980m-970m-mobile-maxwell-gm204/2
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