I don't.
Don't have one, can't afford one and to be perfectly honest don't need one.
I do want one though :P
But not for gaming.
But, it isn't weird to use one for it, it all depends on your requirements.

Same situation here. And this. Laptops give you both the freedom to carry your computer to places as well as move it around in your own home.

I hate touchpads too. That's why I have a wireless mouse. I mainly use my laptop to move from table to table :P.

Occasionally, I'll use my laptop without a mouse (like in bed), but that's mainly to watch movies or play games that use the mouse sparingly or not at all.

Ditto. The cheaper hardware is not worth the total lack of mobility for me.

I think if you gave everyone a laptop and a desktop, you'd find that the vast majority of people gravitate toward the laptop.

My current laptop is a Lenovo workstation and while it's definitely on the pricier side for laptops, it doesn't heat... at all.

It's the darnest thing.

USB keyboard... I've been tempted to use one at home to give the integrated keyboard a break as I've been playing SF2 and found myself frantically pressing the same keys quite a bit.

how on earth do you see things well enough on that small screen (11inch *is* small) ????

I use my laptop because it's all I have. That said most games I play don't require much - it's mostly just gog stuff :D but I doubt I'd have issues playing anything requiring more oomph, just not really interested.

I have only used laptops since.... 1998? after I stopped using my trusted A1200.

Same is happening to my PC... They are probably preparing for eternal battle against the future operating systems of Bill Gates.

I have only a laptop. I also use a Mad Catz controller for certain kinds of game because I used to be pretty much a console gamer for years and it feels more comfortable than the keyboard/mouse combo.

I'm a laptop gamer as well. Laptops are too convinient for me right now

In the last 7-8 years I don't even had a desktop, just my laptop for everything.

What's weird is people like my aunt who watch all their movies on their laptop. Can you imagine watching "Blade Runner" on a laptop!? It be like going to a Metallica concert wearing ear plugs.

If you buy a good laptop and make sure to use it so it doesn't overheat I guess it's not bothersome. For the hardware I've in my computer, I would have needed to pay twice as much if I wanted a laptop at the time and I doubt overheating wouldn't be an issue but I could be wrong.

What's the GPU and CPU in yours for reference? How hot do they become during the most intensive gaming you do?

As for a separated keyboard, I didn't think of that. Still, I find length between the screen and the laptop bothersome that for a longer session of gaming I would need to put some books under the laptop so it rises above the keyboard.

In the end, the largest reason is money and then potential overheat.

I can only assume you mean using the built in speakers... I still haven't seen a laptop with decent ones (although the headphone jack works great).

I don't know how she does it, all I know is that a movie like "Bladerunner" needs the biggest screen possible, NOT a laptop. Ditto for most action movies, Star Wars, anything Kubrick, I could go on. I once saw "Bladerunner" in an old theatre up close to a screen that took up the entire wall and after that I can't even bare to watch it on a nice sized t.v. anymore.

Haven't noticed any heating so far. Here are the games I installed and played since I got it:

Faster Than Light
The Witcher
Screamer 2
Serious Sam The Second Encounter
Stronghold HD
Fez
The Cat Lady
Unepic
Don't Starve
Zafehouse Diaries
Streeth Fighter Alpha 2
To the Moon
Uplink
Waking Mars
Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver
Slender - the Arrival
Postal Classic
1nsane

I guess it got an half-decent workout from Slender and the Witcher.

It has an intel i7-3740QM CPU, 16 GB RAM and NVIDIA Quadro K2000M for graphics with an integrated Intel HD 4000 as fallback.

Mine is a business model with very good durability (I carry it around quite a bit), but you can find a gaming model with similar specs and a somewhat better graphics card for 2/3 the price I paid for mine if you don't expect to carry it around as much.

Still won't be as price efficient as a desktop, but not by that much unless you really are a shoestring budget.

Yes, it's weird, really weird. In fact I think you should seek help on this one. You're just odd. Stay away from me, you're a freak.