Gaming Laptop or Custom-Built Gaming PC

Custom-Built Gaming PC

PC.

Custom-Built Gaming PCs are expensive, if you're looking for something cheaper try this gaming laptop:
Acer Aspire 5750G
Intel Core i5-2450M, 4Gb RAM DDR3, 500Gb HDD, Nvidia GT540M 2GB, 15,6"HD LED Screen, 1,5 Px Webcam, Windows 7 Home Premium

depends on what your doing

Custom built will result in more performance per dollar. If you want it to be portable, matx or mitx are options.

The hell is a gaming laptop?

If you don't absolutely need a laptop, go with a desktop

Edit: Ignore all the trolls with the "gaming laptop herp derp" comments

"gaming laptop" o.O what is that? never heard of such a thing

Custom-built PC. How is this even a question? "Gaming laptops" are an absolute joke.

Custom-built Gaming PC hands down. If you want portability for LAN parties then there are quite a few compact/LAN-friendly cases.

Get a nice Lan case (built in handle etc), or go for an impressively small build. I mean, personally I dont see a reason to differ in case just for lanning as I have no trouble with my full tower case. I also dont walk the thing to a lan party, so maybe thats why.

If you're honestly worried about your budget, go with your gut & build your own PC. You'll get better components for whatever money you were otherwise going to use on a laptop.

Regarding portability, I'm 130 pounds and not very muscular. Carrying my steel mid-tower PC up 2 flights of stairs isn't that hard of work =) and like PPG said, they make special cases for people who go to LAN parties.

Unless you are always on the go, a custom built PC is the best thing to go with. It's a lot cheaper and you will have yourself a much more capable system.

Now, if you don't end up building a mini PC, just make sure you get a mid tower. Full towers are a bit more of a pain to lug around. =P

Depends on preference and what you want to do I suppose. I probably would've built a pc but I don't really have anywhere for a desk in my room and I like to lounge on my living room couch when I do everything, so I like my laptop; I'm also used to drawing on my pen tablet by resting it on my keyboard, it feels weird when I draw on a desktop, and I can still run games like the Witcher 2 on normal graphics and Skyrim on mid-high, depending where I am.

Build a PC.
Not sure if this is a good LAN case or not.

Gaming PC and entry level laptop with Haswell integrated Intel HD 4600 which performs on par with nVIDIA GeForce Go 540M

Do you want to game outside the house and have the money to get a good laptop? Keep in mind that you usually can't upgrade anything except for RAM.

For LAN-parties, I have seen cases that include handles on the top, and cases that include slots on the side for a carrying strap to be attached. Get one of these cases first, then install whatever system you end up building.

Consider porting your system around in a couple plastic totes. That has the advantage of keeping car floor fluff from attaching to any sharp corners on your system, and keeps all the cables together in one spot. It does prevent you from just walking to a friend's house with your system if you have to bring your own monitor. A keyboard and mouse can just go in a large enough backpack.

if you do not have that much of money (1000€?) then take a pc. For a GAMING laptop you have to pay the doubled and you cannot upgrade it so that if one of the parts get to slow you mostly have to buy a new laptop.

and pc is much better because of more usb ports, more hdmi/dvi ports (if you take a good graphics card) and so on...

TL; DR Take the PC

Thanks guys! Really helped me! =D

My Vaio VPC-F21Z1E is going obsolete =P

Why not do a small build with a small case?

Thats your best bet.

If you want portability and gaming I think I'd build a small Micro ATX system, maybe in an Apevia X-QPack2 case. Though I wouldn't use the included power supply.

Could try Mini ITX too but I think that would be harder to build something gaming worthy at a reasonable price with little additional space savings.

It's COMPLETELY unanimous.

There are extremely few times I would ever, ever reccomend a gaming laptop. I know a guy who is getting deployed to Afghanistan. I recommended he get a gaming laptop (since, being single and in the military money wasn't a problem for him). There is no advantage to a gaming laptop. Just get a regular laptop and do other things on it. Flash games, read comics/joke websites like FML or cracked, and then game on your PC.