Laptop/desktop for my son for school and light gaming

Build a desktop. Gives you the flexibility and most modern machines will be suitable for at least 5 years

Can’t say the same for cheap consumer notebooks. Cheap plastics, lousy hinges and batteries will eventually break or wear out

Budget? Laptop? Desktop? Gaming on which?

Wanted to keep it to under 1200plus tax.might need to go up a little bit.
Gaming on either laptop or desktop. Leaning towards laptop for portarabilty for school.

The challange is the price points when you're looking at video cards 3xxx series. You're always at 1100 and up. I dont touch laptops for gaming... i think the 2 need to be separate. Just make sure whatever you use on a standard base from school purposes is to make sure it can run minimum 16gs of ram and a processor of 3.0 and up

I think this is as low as I could find withn 10 mins of checking around.

https://www.canadacomputers.com/product ... _id=195702

https://www.canadacomputers.com/product ... _id=216023

Notice how the price skyrockets. I wouldn't get these that im listing under but its to give a close reference.
https://www.newegg.ca/abs-ali570/p/N82E16883360205

https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/as ... 0/15446050

Cnsr0033 wrote: ↑ The challange is the price points when you're looking at video cards 3xxx series. You're always at 1100 and up. I dont touch laptops for gaming... i think the 2 need to be separate. Just make sure whatever you use on a standard base from school purposes is to make sure it can run minimum 16gs of ram and a processor of 3.0 and up

I think this is as low as I could find withn 10 mins of checking around.

https://www.canadacomputers.com/product ... _id=195702

https://www.canadacomputers.com/product ... _id=216023

Notice how the price skyrockets. I wouldn't get these that im listing under but its to give a close reference.
https://www.newegg.ca/abs-ali570/p/N82E16883360205

https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/as ... 0/15446050

great info thank you!

https://www.canadacomputers.com/product ... _id=195702

is there any real benefit of going for a desktop like this for $1150?

When I Could get this laptop for 1350+ taxes after using a 10% off coupon
https://www.dell.com/en-ca/shop/gaming- ... zENGNKgINo

Seems like the all specs are better on the laptop.

Usually you get more powerful machine for the same price when comparing desktop to laptop. More benefit for going with a desktop is ease of repairability/upgradability. Maybe the market is just too out of wack to make the desktop look too similarly spec'ed for similar price. However, desktop parts will outperform laptop parts even if they're same model like Desktop 3060 vs laptop 3060

I think a good level is probably the Dell Ryzen laptop with the 3050ti and go with 8gb ram from the factory, you can easily buy another 8gb stick for lower than what dell charges. From some of the review videos i've seen of the G15, its not too hard to remove the bottom cover to upgrade the ram yourself. While you have it open, consider upgrading the storage to your desired capacity.

speeeeee wrote: ↑ great info thank you!

https://www.canadacomputers.com/product ... _id=195702

is there any real benefit of going for a desktop like this for $1150?

When I Could get this laptop for 1350+ taxes after using a 10% off coupon
https://www.dell.com/en-ca/shop/gaming- ... zENGNKgINo

Seems like the all specs are better on the laptop.

My phone may be showing different specs vs whats listed but the GPUS seem the same, but unless things changed from the past, a laptop GPU isnt as fast as a desktop. The laptop has a faster cpu but usually its the GPU that does most of the work for gaming. Utimately the biggest and I may come bias on this for me is simply aside from price difference is you get more more upgrade leverage with a desktop vs laptop.

Don't get me wrong its a great laptop and if its within your budget and preference, its a good buy. You're just locked in with laptops. That being said that laptop wil last year more than 4 years with light gaming.

If you are budgeting, don't forget to add monitor and keyboard. I knowingly upgraded my kids laptop to desktop but ended up spending extra $500 for good monitor and mechanical keyboard.

They been using laptop and heavy gaming forever. There shouldn't be problem getting 3060 and 16gb laptop for few years until they grows older. If they want a faster desktop down the road, 2 yr old laptop is still useful for the kid or for the family.

If you are set on laptop, consider 3070 as that will run everything on ultra. It's comparable to desktop 3060ti.