The popularity of portable PCs is on the increase each month. The number
of notebooks sold in comparison with ordinary PCs speaks clearly about
this. Yet “home” configurations still have the upper hand in one very
strong and profitable segment – gaming. Gaming notebooks are more and
more numerous, but their prices go from 1000€ upwards, while a really
wicked machine requires nearly 2000€. Desktop variants offer much better
performance for way less money. Of course, you won’t be carrying them
around and playing games in a park, but gaming is simply much cheaper
this way. What we wanted to do this time around is prepare a very
ambitious test, i.e. confront desktop PCs and notebooks. As 800€ seems
to be the go-to price range for a good gaming PC nowadays, the display
and peripherals included, we wanted to check out which portable PCs can
be bought for that kind of money, with features and performance being
worthy of the attribute “gaming"..
Check it out InsideHW.
Notebook Round-up: Room Gaming vs Portable Gaming @ InsideHW
Posted on Friday, November 05 2010 @ 5:32 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck