Just curious what brand is that ?

God no. I moved to another city (country, in fact) for a year and didn't ever bother taking my desktop PC with me. I ended up playing A LOT on this thing and even continued to use it for gaming when I got back and had access to my desktop PC again. >.<

That would be too cool; there you are on a train or plane and the guy next to you looks over and sees you playing Postal on your laptop. XD

You are like me then. My last desktop is probably ten years old (still works fine), some components even older (the ATI Radeon X800 Pro graphics card is the newest component in it, I think. According to internets, it came out around 2004 or so.). That PC can barely run Far Cry, Half-life 2 and Doom 3 acceptably, as I recall playing them all through on it originally with a bit lower details and 800x600 resolution or so. They run otherwise ok, except the last area/fight in Doom 3, and the volcano level in Far Cry, ran jerkily.

At some point I noticed I was playing most of my games on my work laptop (Lenovo Thinkpad T400, which I still have), as it actually felt a bit faster for games than the desktop. And last year I bough a heavier duty gaming laptop, which is my main (gaming) PC at the moment. I still play many older games on the older work laptop, as it runs some of them better (e.g. Interplay/Bioware RPGs like Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale, as they are a bit glitchy on newer NVidia Geforce chipsets that my newer gaming laptop has).

I'm not really looking forward to buy another desktop PC as I like the portability, but I haven't ruled that out completely. Depends how big a rise in HW requirements for PC game ports the PS4 and XBone consoles will cause, ie. will there even be a moderately priced gaming laptops anymore that can run them ok. I presume there will be, I wouldn't be surprised they run fine even on my current gaming laptop with medium settings or so.

I like that with laptops, but I guess nowadays wireless mice, keyboards and 5 meter HDMI cables allow you to use desktop PCs remotely, if you are close enough to a HDTV.

Sometimes I still prefer a desktop and a bigger monitor. Staring at a small 14" laptop screen (my work laptop) makes my eyes tired much more easily, hence I prefer to use it connected to my desktop monitor instead when I can. The 17.3" screen of my newer laptop is big enough so I am not missing a desktop monitor with it.

Are you joking? I wouldn't think of going to a concert without ear plugs, my hearing is too dear for me. Luckily they also sell ear plugs specifically meant for listening to music in concerts, ie. it will make the volume lower, but not affect the sound quality.

Then again when I we want to see that gaga lady, I used normal ear plugs borrowed from my work. I didn't care enough for the music in order to buy proper "music ear plugs".

okay, bad example, but you get my point about watching Bladerunner on a tiny little screen. I think.

I use a wireless mouse (or trackball, I have both) and keyboard with my laptop quite often. Especially if I switch the video output to the HDTV.

Yeah, that. Then again, whenever I fly, I seem to watch several triple-A movies from those 8" video screens that the airplanes have. Last month I watched e.g. the newest G.I. Joe movie, and that "Jack the Giant Slayer" movie from one during a flight.

Then again, I had no option, and I had to kill the 10 hour flight time somehow. Playing PC games on a laptop would have been nice, but too little room in the economy class for anything like that. For some reason I didn't want to even take the ASUS tablet out, in order to play some mobile Android games. That's one case where tablet gaming makes sense to me.
For me it is the cheaper (non-gaming) laptops which seem to overheat more easily with gaming, than e.g. my proper ASUS gaming laptop.

You think that's weird, I see people watching movies on their smartphones all the time. How the hell can someone enjoy a movie on a 4-5" screen.

Are you serious? That's a new one for me and my mind is officially blown.

I think with how both consoles are using current gen AMD processors and graphics that you are going to see a lot of laptops that can run the ports. Most intel i5's can run rings around the higher end AMD procs, and then you have the i7s. The main determining factor will of course be the graphics card, but I still think even midrange laptops will run the ports fairly well.
I can't wait for laptops and TVs to start having WHDI built in. Wireless HDMI. Sit on my couch playing a game on my large screen HDTV without using a wire.
I fly a lot and you will see people holding smartphones on the plane and in airports watching a film. I tried watching the last quarter of a football (american football for those outside the US) game on my smartphone when my tablets battery died and that was just a horrible experience. I can't imagine a 2hour film.

No, it's not weird at all. It's actually pretty common.

Personally, i don't like using laptops for gaming. First, because i play games mostly at home anyway, and laptops are not as portable as other devices. I'd much rather use my tablet or my cellphone as portable gaming devices than a laptop. Second, a powerful laptop is much more expensive than it's desktop equivalent. I like running games with all the graphical options maxed out. My PC wasn't expensive and can do it comfortably for almost every game out there. A laptop capable of doing the same would be too expensive for me. Third, i like building my own PCs. If i want to upgrade, i can just buy a specific part and put it into my PC myself. I can't do the same on a laptop.

My touchpad stopped working on my laptop about a month ago, it' still under warranty and I can't be bothered to get it fixed. It is just that unimportant for me. If my Logitech trackball dies, I will be driving to a store within the hour to get a replacement.

I tried Massive Error - then went back to Windows 2000.

i actually have no other option right now because my desktop's fan makes really loud noise, so i decided not to turn it on for now. I have to deal with it but it's not so bad, except i can't play some of the newer games.