| SvennoJ said: @Pemalite (sorry can't be bothered to figure out that fancy quoting) Actually since my laptop is always on, zero boot time. Yet every time I start Steam it wants to update first (or restart because it updated sometime earlier) probably because I don't use it all that often. And sure some games start faster, it's just a different experience. When I get behind the laptop I'll be checking my mail first, the weather, websites, and other distractions. Start a console, I get my drink, get settled on the couch and play what I was planning to play. PCs can simply do too much lol. |
Your laptop would not be as powerful as my desktop. You don't have the thermal or power envelope to match it.
I am also on Gbit fiber, so I can download a 100GB game in under 10 minutes, it's actually faster than the mechanical storage in the Playstation 4 and Xbox One.
It would be reasonable to assert that technologically, I am likely in a very different league entirely.
And that is fine you have a different use-scenario for your devices, not knocking that at all... Just reinforcing that your scenario isn't applicable to everyone elses and vice-versa.
| SvennoJ said: Consoles are my therapy, break away from dealing with Windows and iOS. Combining work and play didn't work for me, and led to many years of physical therapy from spending too much time behind a PC. Avg 9 hours during the day, then another 5 hours in the evening gaming and writing my own programs... |
PC's are my therapy, I don't need to deal with Windows or iOS, it just works, it's just an interface.
Not to mention that console UI's are becoming rather complex these days and have monolithic kernals powering them, they aren't to different from a PC.
| SvennoJ said: Great collection! Yep, both is best :) As for preservation, I'll leave that to Abandonware and GoG. I doubt any of my 5.25" and 3.5" discs still work and laptops don't even come with CD drives anymore. |
You can buy external USB optical drives. You can buy USB external 5.25" and 3.5" drives and run these games directly... In-fact, they have existed for 20+ years which you could have brought forward to every laptop.. You can't do that with that HD DVD drive for the Xbox 360 or the Nintendo 64 DD... Consoles have historically relied on propriety interfaces and drivers so you can't bring accessories with you.
| SvennoJ said: I was looking at a 3070 gaming laptop the other day, thought about buying it, then just bought a bunch of 2nd hand xbox one games to play on Series X. Including Quantum Break which I have on Steam and Gears 5 which I already downloaded twice on PC GP and never actually played but will now play in local co-op :) The only game I really 'need' (a better) PC to play is FS2020 and that's still broken so might as well hold off on replacing my current 1060 laptop. |
Get yourself a desktop... Your brand new Geforce 3070 notebook would have been inferior to my year+ desktop... It's comparatively more or less a mid-range desktop in terms of performance in 2022.
If you want the best graphics, best audio, best controls, most features (mod support, better fov, better online networks, more vibrant and engaging communities) then the PC is where it is at.
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