I was just wondering as I'm going to sell my orP koobcaM and I'll have £2000 to spend.
IT depends on what you do you need a laptop or would you only use a dest top. If it was me i would just go for a desktop.
Why not meet it halfway and get a mid quality on both
If I were you I'd buy a decent pc for around £1200 and then get a new haswell laptop or notebook with the rest, you get more power for the price with a desktop so I would load that up to play games and video editing etc and then have a decent laptop to take around that can handle everyday tasks like internet browsing, word documents etc while you're on the move. Depends what you are going to need both for though.
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I'll need to game and (to edit videos (maybe)) but I'm going on a school trip abroad so music and maybe games are key. The desktop sounds like a better option but the laptop should still be OK - right? I might spend £1200 on the desktop, £100 on games, £100 on perfrials, £200 on good headphones and £400 on a laptop.Tell me if I am stupid for my ideas. I write from my bed with a black eye, two plaster castes on my arms, a missing tooth and a brocken jaw after I fell out of a tree from some height and went to A&E for 4 days! Have fun!
Trees. They're death traps.
One of the funnest, though! (Please, nobody else mention it - I wanted to talk about computers)
get an asus A or K series laptop, and build a really good desktop. it';s the route i'm going
Build a good desktop, get a crap laptop. I would never buy an expensive laptop. They break too often, or get stolen. The power lead will be the first thing to go. Unless, you have pets that like to sit on screens.
Not only that, but you can't properly maintain the hardware in a laptop. If you open them up, you void the warranty.
No brainer, from my point of view.
Thanks guys, that's what I was thinking of doing at first so thanks for your ideas!
Create a VNC server on your good desktop, then get a cheap maybe used laptop and just do any resourse intensive tasks such as video editing on your desktop remotely. The ony thing you can't really do then is game on your laptop, but if you don't want to game, I use VNC servers all the time.