PC mustard rice is the gaymen.
>playing gaymes on your mom's basement / dad attic
>not gay
It's literally the retards.
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@desktopfags
>They have a lot of drawbacks:
>can't upgrade
eGPU. Can't upgrade CPU but you can resell a used laptop at a better price point or send them to an official refurbisher
>hard to customize when buying
<doesn't know the countless versions available
good luck customizing your trashtop and then invoking your warranty once it doesn't "do the LED (tm)"
either way your, socket is gonna be obsolete in after a few years.
>many are very poor quality (as is to be expected from prebuilts)
Depends if you're buying HP "housefire" or Asus trash (literally people buy this?). Acer and Lenovo is the king right now and I'm not talking about that "plastic feel" or "gaymer lgbtwifi rainbow design" when I say quality. They certainly last long used as a travel device. If not, you're just unlucky.
<inb4 muh metal chassis quality
So tell me more about your back pain or your luggage.
>poor performance because parts must be small and light
efficiency =/= performance
Actually, it's the small/portable form factor that only matters when it comes to advancing general consumer technology.
Desktops are trash when there's existing super computers and clusters out there. Desktops are only meant as Multimedia entertainment which the consoles and high-end audio player can do right now. Maybe if you do poojet programming it will but definitely not as most programmers don't need high-end and only uses their companies' workstations or build systems and work laptops for such job.
Smaller form factor promotes low TDP/performance which has (if not potential, ready for) REAL WORLD USE not just time-waster gaming that doesn't do anything with our economy.
>diminishing returns from higher end parts because of poor airflow
Airflow is a thing of the past. What once was a 2008 desktop can run today with just passive cooling and even more efficient. You're just scared of mobile technology surpassing your basement station.
>costs more than a desktop
False. Desktops cost more. GPU prices keep on getting higher thanks to miner shits. Would you look at that overpriced low frequency non-ECC gaming RAM? LOL and that trash RGBT mechanical keyboard. Fucking 10-8ms response time. Or even that shit tracking mouse that uses your precious CPU only to interpolate that slow and gapped raw sampling.
>historically poor linux compatibility
True but you could get a laptop designed for Red Hat like Lenovo.
>batteries don't actually last enough for anything so they're a meme, you always end up hooking it up anyway
18650, screwdrivers, multimeter if you don't plan to take that with you on the airport. Battery replacements are cheap and come in handy when you don't want that circuit breaker tripping and possibly crashing either your NAND/HDD drive or at best only eating all of your precious write-cache/buffered data that's supposed to write after a clean shutdown. Most batteries fucking up is the user's fault for not allowing the power supply to cool thus passes the heat over the batteries reducing it's life span.