My partner has an expensive gaming pc he built himself, I have a series X and Nintendo switch and need a laptop for work (I teach college IT, mostly software dev, I need something more than a standard laptop but nothing too powerful so went with a 1k budget gaming laptop from Asus). I tend to go with laptops because I like console gaming and can play heavy pc games on my partners pc.
If you want reliable data on this, this sub is probably not the right place to ask. You're gonna have skewed results because most of the people on here have pc's they built themselves or had built, that's part of the point of this sub, so this doesn't represent the average person (this might be one of the worst places to ask if you want good data). So I would advise you to ask around on other subs. Your college or university is probably be a better place to ask around, askreddit has a more general audience, maybe a pc shop can give you some data on how many laptops they sell compared to parts.
This all depends on how people live their lives.
Some people could be traveling a lot for work... perhaps they're a trucker? perhaps they just need to constantly fly around the world for business... a desktop PC is not going to suit those people. A laptop is going to be far more versatile to their lifestyle.
Additionally, laptops are great for productivity and work. Someone may not need a big GPU, perhaps an APU will be fine for what they need to use it for. But if someone works as say a graphic designer, video editing and the likes... then a desktop will be better as you can have more raw GPU power, which is fundemental to that work.
Then you may have people at home, family and the likes... perhaps a shared computer for the family. Then a PC with strong hardware is going to be more suitable to support multiple profiles, and different use-case scenarios... gaming, work, editing, streaming perhaps...
Ultimately, I don't think this comes down to ones opinion, rather it comes down to ones lifestyle. If they are not at home most of the time, then a desktop may not be suitable, where as for someone who is at home most of the time, then a desktop may be better.
In my case for example, I have a personal desktop PC that I built myself for gaming and personal stuff. A macbook for work as a cloud developer, and a small linux box that sits as a home server for automation which I never really need to touch.
All 3 of those devices perform as I expect them to perform for their roles. I wouldn't use my PC for work (for both security reasons and it would just be overkill), I wouldn't use my macbook for gaming (for obvious reasons) and the linux box is too small to do anything other than triggering automation pipelines.
I bought my current gaming PC but I fully intend to upgrade it slowly over the next few years rather than replace the whole system. It might be easier for a less tech minded person to understand if you showed a build video from something like LTT. Back in the day things were very complicated but now it's just a bunch of separate pieces that plug together.
My partner has an expensive gaming pc he built himself, I have a series X and Nintendo switch and need a laptop for work (I teach college IT, mostly software dev, I need something more than a standard laptop but nothing too powerful so went with a 1k budget gaming laptop from Asus). I tend to go with laptops because I like console gaming and can play heavy pc games on my partners pc. If you want reliable data on this, this sub is probably not the right place to ask. You're gonna have skewed results because most of the people on here have pc's they built themselves or had built, that's part of the point of this sub, so this doesn't represent the average person (this might be one of the worst places to ask if you want good data). So I would advise you to ask around on other subs. Your college or university is probably be a better place to ask around, askreddit has a more general audience, maybe a pc shop can give you some data on how many laptops they sell compared to parts.
Yeah I plan to ask around my campus as well, and the idea about asking the pc shop is not bad at all
Your teacher is gonna appreciate it if you use different mediums, I definitely would :D.
This all depends on how people live their lives. Some people could be traveling a lot for work... perhaps they're a trucker? perhaps they just need to constantly fly around the world for business... a desktop PC is not going to suit those people. A laptop is going to be far more versatile to their lifestyle. Additionally, laptops are great for productivity and work. Someone may not need a big GPU, perhaps an APU will be fine for what they need to use it for. But if someone works as say a graphic designer, video editing and the likes... then a desktop will be better as you can have more raw GPU power, which is fundemental to that work. Then you may have people at home, family and the likes... perhaps a shared computer for the family. Then a PC with strong hardware is going to be more suitable to support multiple profiles, and different use-case scenarios... gaming, work, editing, streaming perhaps... Ultimately, I don't think this comes down to ones opinion, rather it comes down to ones lifestyle. If they are not at home most of the time, then a desktop may not be suitable, where as for someone who is at home most of the time, then a desktop may be better. In my case for example, I have a personal desktop PC that I built myself for gaming and personal stuff. A macbook for work as a cloud developer, and a small linux box that sits as a home server for automation which I never really need to touch. All 3 of those devices perform as I expect them to perform for their roles. I wouldn't use my PC for work (for both security reasons and it would just be overkill), I wouldn't use my macbook for gaming (for obvious reasons) and the linux box is too small to do anything other than triggering automation pipelines.
Thank you for the insight!!
You can make poll posts
I tried but it won't let me select it :(
Yeah unfortunately the subreddit doesn't allow poll posts
I bought my current gaming PC but I fully intend to upgrade it slowly over the next few years rather than replace the whole system. It might be easier for a less tech minded person to understand if you showed a build video from something like LTT. Back in the day things were very complicated but now it's just a bunch of separate pieces that plug together.