So recently I've been eyeballing the PSP. I can buy a used one for about $130 and the games released for it over the last six months or so haven't sucked quite as hard as previously. Sad truth, my most recent console conundrum was whether to buy the PSP or the XBox 360. Relax, I haven't bought either one..... yet.
In all honesty, I'm probably not going to buy and XBox 360 since I can just upgrade my PC for about half the price. Still, I've noticed a growing number of laptops being toted around and the town I'm in has had a rather acute outbreak of WiFi hotspots. You'd be hard pressed to find a coffee house or bar around here that didn't offer WIFI. Hell, even one of the local laundrymats offers it. This has made me turn my attention to laptops which is kind of the subject of this blog.
The biggest problem with laptops is price. The computer that I'm using now I built about a year ago on a budget of about $500. After I grab some more memory and a mid-range video card, I'll have sank about $600 into it. Of course, that's not counting the $200, widescreen LCD monitor with the DVI and HD connectors that I bought to replace the old monitor. That brings us to about $800 total. A laptop for that price will have half the hard drive space and about half the CPU speed that I have now. Given, the laptop would have a Dual Core processor and this machine has an AMD, but the bottom line is that I'm paying the same amount for less power a year after my desktop was built. This means that I wouldn't be able to play many of the PC games that my current machine can handle.
Now there are dedicated gaming laptops, but they're rare and you probably won't find one for under $1500. At that price, it would never leave my house. In fact, it probably wouldn't even get turned on. It would have a whole room of the house to itself where I'd just look at it and polish it with a diaper....
<ahem> Back on topic.... The next problem with laptops is the fact that if one thing breaks on it, the whole thing is a brick. If something goes wrong with my desktop I can isolate the problem and replace any component that is faulty for very little cash by myself. If something goes wrong with my laptop, I have to send it to a shop where sweaty tech geeks will fix it, steal all my porn, pirated movies and mp3s, recover all those deleted photos of me in drunken sexually compromising positions at the company New Year's Eve party, and that really raunchy homemade sex tape that me and the wife made but were later disgusted by, then charge me more than I initially paid for the machine in question.
I know that I'll have this machine for a couple years more, but the next computer is definitely going to be a laptop. That just seems to be the way that the world is moving. If they don't create cell phone that can do all the things my PC does, that is.
well if you are a gamer best to stick with a good desktop and keep laptops for extra handy tools. and right if you want a good gaming laptop you will pay a good arm and a leg for it. My laptop is probably a good 5 years old now, it plays most older titles decently well and WoW decently well. but i only use it for looking up info doing basic computer stuff for the most part.
I've been building/modding my own PC since I was 16. you can build a near top quality computer with 500 bucks :) newegg.com. you can have a nice AM2 5200 + dual processor with 2 gigs of ram and new mobo for that price. Less than that actually. but for 700 go for that plus a nice Geforce 8800 GTS video card. but if you haven't setup a gaming rig with a Raid 0 yet, i totally recommend it :) zoom is the understatement :P
to each is their own tho, hope you find what you want/need.
Fri Dec 07 2007 6:54AMMMORPG.com writes:
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