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Desktop is a much better choice, laptops are not good for gaming or value.
You can probably build a desktop for $500-600 (not including screen, speakers, mouse and keyboard) that will game as well as a $2000 laptop.
Also laptop is not upgradeable.
This laptop may be able to play some games. I can not promise good performance, but it should be able to run many new games. It's also well under your budget.
Acer Aspire V3-551G-X419 Notebook AMD A-Series A10-4600M(2.30GHz) 15.6" 6GB Memory 750GB HDD 5400rpm DVD Super Multi AMD Radeon HD 7670M
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215974
You could also get a PS3 for $200~ + a monitor or TV with built in speakers for $100~
Like the PS3 this laptop will quickly go obsolete. It may already have trouble with some new games both because it needs to run crossfire dual graphics with 7660G+7670m to get the full potential and because mobile and APU chipsets are sometimes not supported or not well supported by games. Also the laptop may or may not have good cooling.
Some games like Crysis 3 are poorly optimized for PC (from the minimum specs I've seen) and you might actually run it better on PS3 than on this laptop.
The laptop will be below the specs of the upcoming PS4 and so even well optimized PS4 titles may not run on it if they would use the PS4 fully.
For about the same price + extra for monitor and pereferals you can make a $500-600 desktop tower that will be technically better than PS3 and PS4 and then on top of that you need to budget $150-200 for cheap Monitor/TV and other cheap pereferals + $100 for Windows 8 64bit.
Total for a entry level desktop gaming computer better than both PS3 and PS4 and including monitor and everything else, assuming you need all that would be about $900 OR LESS.
If you want to only be better than PS3 you can probably shave that down to $600~ including everything and then you can upgrade your GPU for like $100-150 later to try and bump yourself up to PS4 specs.
I suggest PC Part Picker[www.pcpartpicker.com] as a great place to buiild your own computer.
I'm also going to link you a build that I made which is what I'm basing my price quotes off of. It's supposed to be technically equal to or better than PS3 and PS4.
http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/11/828939978469612542/
With the same build above you can take about $100 off the price if you only want to be better than PS3 but not as good as PS4, to do this simply swap the Athlon x4 750K CPU for a AMD A10 5800K or 6800K APU and remove the HD 7790 graphics card from the build. However don't buy a APU and the HD 7790 at the same time because the APU graphics will be wasted, you can still upgrade a system with APU with a GPU at a later time, there is just no point in paying for both from the start cause you can only use one or the other.
I choose to use a laptop for everything I do (work, personal, gaming, etc.), and I replace the laptop when it dies. I haven't used a desktop in YEARS, I have too much invested in one place doing EVERYTHING and letting me switch between games and browsing and serious work whenever I like.
It also depends on things like whether you have spare monitors etc. lying about - at least a laptop has everything you need in one package.
I have used some of the MSI gaming laptops and they are pretty damn good. But currently, I'm on a Samsung RF711, which laughs at most things I throw at it. Beware, I don't consider 120fps necessary for any game and don't play the "big name AAA" titles. But I have 500 games on Steam and play an AWFUL lot of games.
It's all a compromise. If you buy a laptop, I'd recommend a decent graphics card in it - a real one, not the Intel onboard rubbish. Other than that, it's what you can get for your money. Which won't be a lot in terms of gaming credentials.
Other things to consider:
Laptop is portable, but therefore much more breakable.
Plugging things into a laptop makes it more vulnerable (e.g. wheels, controllers, etc.)
Laptop isn't upgradeable.
Laptop battery will be useless in time.
Laptop won't game well AT ALL while on battery (maybe an hour or so on top settings, ignoring all power savings, if you're lucky).
Laptop keyboards can be cramped.
Laptop sound isn't the best.
For me, I love having a single laptop for everything. However, there are a lot of downsides, and it can be costly. For my usage / perception, they just don't matter at all. I don't care about battery life beyond being able to watch a DVD on a plane once in a while. I don't care about gaming on battery AT ALL. I don't care about the fragility (but still take INSANE amounts of care when handling it, which runs to being very careful about where the power cable lies and where USB sticks lever, etc.).
Personally, I expect a two-year life of a laptop. If it lasts that long in terms of battery, not snapping at the hinges, etc. when it gets used for 12+ hours a day, then it's performed well. Anything longer is unusual (I have a stack of broken laptop parts, the only thing that carries onto a new machine is the hard disk, usually).
But a desktop? I still have a desktop that's nearly 10 years old running in my spare room. At the time, it had a not-very-expensive graphics card and did everything I needed it to do. Useless for games now, of course, but fine for everything else.
Get yourself the highest-end laptop with decent graphics that you can afford, or a desktop. If you get the laptop, bear in mind that you have to pay for the compromise of having a portable, battery-powered, tiny system, that you can't really upgrade, crammed into a small space. If the trade-off is worth it, look at the price of gaming laptops, then realise that all you'll get for $1000 is basically a normal laptop with maybe an nVidia card in it.
There has been more false accusations, and so little facts stated in the two responces it's hard to keep myself from raging.
I will kindly say; In the 11-1400$ Range, you can get a I7 3612QM Which is a Tad faster than the 3570K at stock, and most likely will have a 680m or a 7970m Which are based off of the 7870/660 GPU Dies. Just different VRM's and DIMMs.
Why people give notebooks bad rep is anyones guess, but what can i say, you guys are stuck sitting at a desk while i sit on the train and play Metro On Ultra Online w/ my Wireless hotspot.
ANY High end notebook is 95% Upgradeable, CPU, RAM, GPU (MXM 3.0B), PSU, Keyboard, Display, Fans, all can be upgraded and changed. So keep this "Non Upgradeable" crap in your bias books.
He's asking for a notebook UNDER $1000, not over, not $1100-$1400, less than $1000, like as in $700 would be nice and $500 would be better.
For the price you quote he could get desktop i7 3820 or FX 8350 and HD 7970 or GTX 770.
Notebooks do not perform as well for the price, it's common knowledge. Their cooling is worse, their upgrade options are worse, some GPUs and CPUs are hard soldered to the motherboard.
If you want to ignore his request for sub $1000 price then Eurocom makes very nice notebooks and you can easily spend $6000 on getting performance similar or less than a $3000 desktop rig. They are all mostly upgradeable though. http://www.eurocom.com/
I'm actually very impressed that you reccomended me to Eurocom, I actually own a Eurocom Panther 5DSE With a Desktop Xeon 6 core, and Sli 680m's. Also a Eurocom Cougar (W860CU). I use the panther for some rendering things from my 3D printer.
I'm just saying, Notebooks get alot of hate, and sure they may be more expensive because you have batteries, and A screen, etc. But i mean if portability is your thing, you will not find a better fit.
With the implementation of standardized mobile Bus's like the MXM 3.0 B and mSata all Descrete Graphics cards, Hard drives, and Ram will be interchangable between them. Not to mention, the reason parts are so high, it they can only be bought from a reseller of the company, or torn from a machine.
I know there are some but a major barrier is no standard in case and motherboard sizes and expansion ports and stuff.
MSI used to have (Back in the day (07-09)) a thing called a MSI Whitebook, Which was a Chasis, a motherboard, Power brick, and Keyboard and Screen. The CPU, RAM, HDD, GPU, and such all had to be purchased by themselves, they did that in a effort to promote custom mobile machines, which, worked well for the first year or so, but never really caught on due to high manufacturer costs.
But, the moral of the story, is that they have came a long way. Give it a few years, and we will start to see things become even more standardized in the High-end market.
You can't move the graphics card except on those models that have allowed for it (i.e. the more expensive ones in the first place). You can't really change the screen, you can't change much else at all, in fact. If you're really lucky you can get a hugely expensive card that plugs into the machine and "upgrades" it in some way but it'll cost you more than the laptop until the laptop is basically obsolete.
I'm actually championing laptop use here - as an all-round machine, which includes gaming, they are the best option. But for explicitly high-end gaming, and gaming on a budget at that, they are not the best option - a desktop is. For upgradeability, they are also not the best option unless you pay through the nose - so why not just buy a non-upgradable, but higher-specced laptop in the first place? The fact is that even desktop standards last for very long. You might be able to pull RAM out of a five-year-old machine and get it working on a more modern one but it will be a performance drag compared to just buying some new RAM with the new machine.
You can get a laptop for a few hundred dollars that'll do 99% of what a non-gamer will do (including playing games at half-decent rates). If you want to be a gamer and get the same sort of performance out of a laptop, you're into the thousand dollars mark. If you want to be anywhere near the high-end or cutting-edge, it'll be cheaper to buy a new car. But with desktops, you can get a cheap desktop for a few hundred dollars. You can get a half-decent setup for less than a thousand dollars. And you can go mad above that price range. And in a few years, it will still be in one piece and you can pay a few hundred dollars for boards/cards and get it back into line with current requirements. That's just not true of a laptop.
Not in any model I'd ever heard of. You can replace them with the same one, but not upgrade to a better motherboard. In the end in a desktop, when everything else goes you can still keep your case, PSU, monitor, keyboard and mouse.
I think the OP is looking for something that he can use for light gaming on the go rather than something fancy. I know of a few like that, such as the Lenovo Y500 (if you get that be aware that the touchpad is, reportedly, horribad) or HP ENVY dv6t-7300.
I'm pretty sure anyone willing to dish out 1000$ on a notebook knows basic differences between PC and notebook, jeez.
Would have been good if you mentioned the games that you play and your current configuration.
Here are the best gaming laptops in the market at the moment --
Best Gaming Laptops for under $1000 - June 2013[gezby.com]
I think the Sager would be the best one but Toshiba might last longer.
If you go for the Toshiba then go for the 7200RPM HDD and extra ram for $70.
I'm currently playing a laptop, Sager NP9170 with GTX 675mx, as far as power I haven't encountered anything that I can't play on medium to high at 60 fps.
As far as upgradability, well any laptop that has a card in an MXM slot, basically any Sager listed as "Upgradable," high end alienware, msi, and theoretically some asus laptops I've heard, are upgradable in terms of GPU. The only thing is, from what I've seen, notebook GPU's are incredibly expensive to buy anywhere by themselves. It's a simple swap though once you do get it, assuming there are no BIOS issues.
So as far as upgradability, the whole "laptop aren't upgradable at all," is false, and is just claimed by the misinformed, it actually is possible, it's just more difficult.
Laptops: more portable, harder to upgrade, but not impossible as some people claim, but also much more expensive.
You should know that when you get one, but you should also know that you can be perfectly happy with a gaming laptop, and you can do what a desktop can do, just with more cost.
Also, look at maybe XoticPC, or Gentech PC or something of the like for Sagers.
I love this thing, I can play virtually any game on mid to high settings. Currently playing CS:GO on high with well over 60 frames and Metro Last Light on high with a pretty steady 50-60 frames.