What can a PC do that a laptop can't?

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I had to buy a pc before me but realized that they were just too expensive for me and so I looked around for a laptop and noticed that they were cheaper. My question why? So can't the things you can do with a PC? I just want to be able to play Minecraft and Fortnite smoothly.

Cu

It depends on what you need it for.

A PC is more suitable for gaming because:

+ upgradeable

+ better P / L

+ more performance

- not mobile

I find a laptop better for office work because:

+ mobile

+ own screen

+ Battery

For gaming, I would use a PC for office work and a laptop

Edit: No, a laptop is definitely not cheaper if you need it to gamble. You can get a reasonably good laptop for gaming from 1000 onwards, but you can get almost all games with a 700-800 euro PC

He

Looked for a laptop and noticed that they are cheaper.

They are not, at least not if you want to get a comparable performance

An

But where are there PCs with which you can play games and are cheap up to 500 euro

Cu

Just for comparison:

You can get a laptop with a 1660 TI and an i5 9300H for 1000 euro

With a PC you get a Ryzen 5 3600 and a RX 5000 XT or 2060 Super for this price

And that's just the GPU and CPU in comparison

He

500 euro and gaming can practically be ruled out with laptops and entry into a tower PC is more likely.

https://hardwarerat.de/...0-sata-ssd

for Minecraft and Fortnite it should be enough

An

Ok don't know me about it

Cu

https://hardwarerat.de/...a-ssd?c=78

It costs 530 and you can play all games with mid settings or high.

Cu

https://hardwarerat.de/...a-ssd?c=78

Here is a pc for your budget. Dprt can play all games on mid settings or even high settings

An

How you both just recommend the same PC to me xD ok good thanks xD

Dr

You won't find anything clever for the price. Neither PC nor laptop. You would have to invest 100 to 200 euro more for a PC and 500 euro for a laptop

Cu

This is because hardware advice is the best site for gaming pcs, so ready pc. Dubaro is also bad, but hardware is the best.

Mo

PCs have a higher performance.

Due to the compact design, the heat dissipation is limited, therefore the CPU and graphics card are usually clocked down compared to the desktop CPUs or otherwise limited in performance.

PCs can be expanded relatively easily.

In the case of notebooks, the CPU and or graphics card can usually only be expanded, if at all, with very expensive models. Often no expansion is possible at all or only storage and or mass storage can be expanded.

And if a part of a notebook is defective, the entire device usually has to be replaced or bought new, individual components can't be replaced.

Otherwise I do not think that notebooks are cheaper. At least if you had the same equipment. There are very cheap notebooks but they are not good either. With 2 or 4 GB of memory they become really lame and have to swap continuously. In addition, an SSD with 32 or 64GB is also no memory that you want to do to yourself.

He

Yes with good finished PCs there are not many contact points with a good P / L ratio

Cu

Not correct. For 530 you get a pc with a rx 570 8gb and a ryzen 5 1600 (the new version). So you can play almost all games on mkd settings. And for what he wants to play, it is certainly enough

Dr

Of course you always get something. But then you have to make deductions for the case, ram, SSD, storage space. In the long run, it is worth investing a bit more money and not getting the cheapest from the cheapest.

An

A question. How does it work with Wi-Fi? Can you just connect it like a cell phone or do you need a cable?

He

PCs do not have a WLAN integrated as standard, you can retrofit them with a WLAN stick or you can connect a LAN cable

ce

A PC is modular. So you can install several hard drives, SSDs, optical drives. You can choose a graphic card, financially at a speed that suits you.

It makes no sense to use a PC with e.g. Compare high-performance NVidia cards with a notebook that uses an INTEL graphic on the soldered-in CPU. It's like comparing apples to pears.

A similar high-performance notebook to a PC with a graphics card is always significantly more expensive. Notebooks for 200 to 300 euro have little RAM and modest graphics, so for gaming, and also poorly suited for some applications due to the low memory (4GB).

I have e.g. A notebook with AMD Ryzen, which has 2 cores and a graphic on the chip. The 8GB RAM makes it suitable for most applications, I don't play games with it. So it cost 450 euro.

My PC has a Ryzen with 6 cores and a cheap NVidia card (Bj everything in late 2018). These are worlds in terms of speeds. The PC (32GB RAM) also cost about 800 euro, if not a little more, I don't know that exactly…

Ro

With a laptop up to 500 euro you will not be able to gamble under any circumstances a gaming PC catches min. At 300 euro and for 500 euro you get a whole setup with monitor mouse keyboard etc.