Help Laptop-Desktop VS Desktop

[blackopsguy]

Guys, another idea has just popped out of my mind, according to which, instead of buying a gaming desktop, I could buy a gaming laptop.
This way, I am both gonna be enjoying my favorite games while I am away from home
AND plug my keyboard, mouse and monitor to my laptop for when I am home, to make it look like a desktop.
1) Tell me what you guys think of this idea.
2) Recommend such laptops (bear in mind my monitor's resolution is 1440x900). I wanna have a laptop equally powerful as a gaming desktop with core i5 2500k & gtx570 would be, with as minimal performance decrease when I plug it to my monitor as it can be.
Please...
Thanks

[surtek]

I have done the same but without external keyboard. Only external mouse + lan cable. I did this for my upcoming study. Anyway: you should be searching for a laptop about 700-1000 euro (875-1250 dollar). Mine was about 950 dollar and it has a i7 processor, gt540m, 17,3" screen and much more. It can run BF3, la noire and cod all on high settings. You shouldn't buy something below this if you are searching for a "gaming" laptop. You can but I am not sure it will play the game like you wish.

[DidUknowiPwn]

Do not buy an HP laptop... Worst decision. Overheats like crazy goes up to 90C playing anything...

[blackopsguy]

yea sorry I forgot that
P.S PEOPLE... GAMES I WANT TO RUN MAX SETTINGS--> Black Ops, Modern Warfare 3, Dirt 3, Black ops 2 etc.

[blackopsguy]

how about that?
msi-gt683r-289us

[d0h!]

buying a gaming laptop is waste of money, you pay almost 40% more than you would pay for the same system as a desktop PC.

its much harder to upgrade a laptop
it costs much more to upgrade a laptop
a laptop always gets hotter than any desktop pc which makes it worse if you like to play a few hours on it.

heat = decreases the lifetime of any pc part

i would stay with a desktop pc if i were you

[blackopsguy]

buying a gaming laptop is waste of money, you pay almost 40% more than you would pay for the same system as a desktop PC.

its much harder to upgrade a laptop
it costs much more to upgrade a laptop
a laptop always gets hotter than any desktop pc which makes it worse if you like to play a few hours on it.

heat = decreases the lifetime of any pc part

i would stay with a desktop pc if i were you

wow, you really got a point there... it just didn't cross my mind, thanks d0h!, I am gonna stay with my gaming desktop now indeed.

[JariZ]

I got a gaming laptop and it doesn't necessarily have to be more expensive, In fact I probably would've had to pay more.
But about the overheating part, I can confirm this, sadly
I was working on some game while the room temperature was high (~30C) and the core temp got up to 90 degrees (which never happend before)

[OrangePL]

When I was stupid kid I used to put laptop on a pillow in order to play at bed, CPU temp went up to 90+ C but that's another story.

My current laptop used to overheat as well while playing, when it was hot in 2010 it turned off often because of the temperature. Solution - get a cooler pad. I'm very happy with it and it doesn't get that hot anymore.

[JariZ]

It has not turned off because of overheating so far while i'm using it, but I'm really having a problem with it turning on while it's in my bag and overheating itself (I put it in sleep mode a lot of times because i'm always working on stuff) but that's another story as well.

Either way, I still have no regrets at all. Loving it.