Would you buy a gaming desktop or laptop?

I think you already know what most people will choose. It's just not worth asking.

I think it depends on the person. If you travel a lot and want to play all games you would go with a laptop and a mouse but if you don't travel that much I guess it would be better to get a gaming desktop pc.

But even then you can argue that you want to play outside and stuff so :).

Personally I think it is a completely worthy investment to build a gaming desktop. If done correctly you can have an above average PC for a decent price.

My Specs:

8 gb RAM

750W PSU

Nvidia GTX660 GPU

i5 4670k processor

Corsair 300R Carbide Series Case

(I forgot which motherboard I have but I know it's ASRock)

Price: ~$900 USD

I hope this helps you determine your answer.

Desktop. Cheaper, better. There probably are good gaming laptops but...why choose a laptop for gaming?

For free? I would choose laptop, good laptops are extremelly expensive and i already have desktop.

I believe laptop might be a satellite device for your desktop if you have to travel or have some friends visiting you who you would like to play with. And of course you can get gaming laptop if you have much money and don't worry about overspending them. But IMHO gaming desktop is mush sheaper and gives "better bang for the buck" because it's much easier to upgrade.

I have a gaming laptop. I travel more than I'm at home. I can play any of my steam games (with room to spare on high graphics)(plus many more with steam sharing) and keep anything I don't play constantly on externals. I'm also frequently out of cell range so being able to carry my entire system in a shoulder bag with a spare battery lets me keep on working (and gaming).

I will just say that gaming desktop is master race. Laptops are so much expensive, and if you compare a laptop to a mgaming desktop with the same price, desktop is so much better in all.

Desktop, but don't get one from those mainstream brands like HP or Dell, too overpriced. Get a custom built one (or those like prebuilt ones from falcon and ibuypower)

why not both?

I'd never buy a gaming laptop

For gaming desktop, for portability ultrabook...

I'd decide depending on how often you're at home to play. If you'd like to play on the road or where ever you're going a laptop would be more convenient. Personally I'd never trade in my desktop for a gaming laptop. I know that I can upgrade several parts whenever I want or need. And I've got bad experience with laptops. Not one of my 3 middle class laptops lasted more than 3 years tho' I haven't been playing a lot of games on it.

I agree, desktops are the way to go for gaming

Personally I'd go with a desktop like I have. More room to upgrade. Laptops not so much. My current rig I built 2 years ago now and still haven't met a game yet that can push it to it's limits. Cept maybe battlefield 4 if I have another game running in the background.
Laptops are great in their own right for the mobile gamer. I just don't care for them much myself

I'm a laptop gamer and the only games I've owned that my laptop can't run well are Metro 2033, Just Cause 2, and Natural Selection 2.

While I would prefer a laptop due to my travels, the price:performance ration compared to a desktop was too lopsided, so I ended up just building my own desktop for gaming.

Your laptop is not a gamer laptop. The 635m is not a graphic card from gamer. Lenovo don't have any gamer laptop. Gamer laptops are Dell Alienware, Toshiba Qosmio, MSI GT/GS, Asus ROG.
For the moment a good gamer laptop it's a least CoreI7-4700MQ 8Go 770M

I agree with you, a laptop is not meant to be a gaming device.

However, if you need a laptop for other stuff, I suppose it could work as long as you got a keyboard and monitor :)

desktop

I have a laptop similar to yours and it is my gaming device but I would rather have a desktop if I could afford it.

Laptop because I'm rarely at home. I need something to game on on the go.

Desktop. Every time.

I have a couple of portable computers, but none of them are gaming machines.

Desktop, easier to mantain and update hardware.

i don't like laptop for gaming, tough if i didn't have a choice to have a desktop, i think i would still get a non gaming laptop, but
with something half decent from intel so i can at least launch stuff on low settings if needed.

Some people don't really have a choice tough, so it's gaming laptop or nothing