Well, I guess if you find someone, like the poster in the qoute above, who bought a laptop and spent between $1000-$2000 they will get offended by it because deep down inside they might feel guilty or foolish for spending so much money. But anyways, no...I don't beilive that a high end laptop will equal a high end pc. Furthermore, PC games develop pretty fast in the area of requireing speed so if your laptop does handle the most taxing pc game, it probably won't in 6 months. With a PC you at least have more room to upgrade individual parts to try and keep up. An IDEA PC harddrive will most always be faster than a hard drive for a laptop. And if you do find an uncommon laptop HD with 133 ATA speed I dought seriousely that the motherboard that came with your laptop will support the speed.
Speaking from persoanl experience, I have a laptop and the battery is 6 cell and doesn't last more than 2 hours. With the model laptop I have, there isn't a 12 cell replacement that offers more hours like other models have.
And, the higher end laptops have wide screens, which goes along also with higher end laptops are smaller and less bulky. No one told me, I went shopping and saw for myself.
The originial poster said he really wasn't into video games. So what in the world would he need all that power for?
And furthermore, big deal if your videocard is updateable. Just because it's upgradeable doesn't mean you can put the most bad ass up to date video card in it. You might just just be able to upgrade it with a videocard that isn't much better than the one you got. It all depends on the motherboard.
Stop being so defensive and such a bitch because you like to throw money away. If you got the money that's fine, but it's not necessary to go get a $1000.00 to $2000.00 laptop for someone that doesn't even have a career yet or even a gamer.
Everything you tried to slam me on was covered in my previous posts. Oh I like to throw money away? Like I previously stated I waited on a 40% off deal. I probably paid close to what you paid but got a far superior system for my needs. Also, I don't think that a top of the line laptop will outperform a top of the line desktop but the lines are blurred now and in the case of this dell xps it will outperform or at least hang with all but the highest end desktops. Your talk about my laptop not handling games in six months is rediculous on a couple of notes and a little research will make you feel stupid. The 7800gtx is available for my notebook as an upgrade right now and it is currently the highest end mobile graphics card. They have guaranteed video upgradeability in these notebooks. Like I said times are changing... deal with it. You said it all depends on the motherboard. My laptop is identical to a desktop in that it uses pci express. It uses the mobile standard but none the less a standard and therefore allows for easier future upgrades.
Now we get to the part where you call me a bitch. I won't reply to that with anything other than it takes a pretty small man to call another man a bitch over the internet. If you think you'd be willing to say that face to face I welcome that... nay I encourage that. I don't see why you'd get so upset at me pointing out that you provided misinformation more than once in one of your posts but I don't care why, I'd rather just solve the problem. At any rate all it takes is a little investigative work to see that I didn't spend the amount of money you're talking about so you're wrong there as well as the rest of your points.
Reform the way you deal with people because from what I see here you are on the wrong path junior.
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