Interesting points and as usual some very blinkered points of view.
I travel a great deal with work and am often stuck in hotel rooms for several days at a time with very little to do. Most of the time there is a semi functional broadband connection available. I'd be seriously bored without the ability to occupy my time with my gaming laptop. I had a 17" alienware, which was simply too bulky and heavy to lug around and constantly pull from its bag through airport security so I bought the smaller m14x which offers great portability/performance. It's still a little heavy but does the job quite well. I wish manufacturers would resist the urge to automatically make gaming capable laptops look like a toy though!
Oh and I do read, use the gym and go out when there's stuff to see/do, but sadly many of the places I go to have little to offer in that regard.
It would be fantastic if a manufacturer came up with an upgradeable modular laptop design to extend the lives of our machines as you can with a regular desktop machine. To some extent you can do this with the clevo machines but it isn't necessarily that easy to obtain the next graphics chipset as they are afaik not on general sale and hence fetch a premium price.
I travel a great deal with work and am often stuck in hotel rooms for several days at a time with very little to do. Most of the time there is a semi functional broadband connection available. I'd be seriously bored without the ability to occupy my time with my gaming laptop. I had a 17" alienware, which was simply too bulky and heavy to lug around and constantly pull from its bag through airport security so I bought the smaller m14x which offers great portability/performance. It's still a little heavy but does the job quite well. I wish manufacturers would resist the urge to automatically make gaming capable laptops look like a toy though!
Oh and I do read, use the gym and go out when there's stuff to see/do, but sadly many of the places I go to have little to offer in that regard.
It would be fantastic if a manufacturer came up with an upgradeable modular laptop design to extend the lives of our machines as you can with a regular desktop machine. To some extent you can do this with the clevo machines but it isn't necessarily that easy to obtain the next graphics chipset as they are afaik not on general sale and hence fetch a premium price.
), I'd only have a desktop. As I said before, different people have different requirements - there is no "one size fits all" solution.
