I don't understand why anyone still buys/builds a PC tower anymore

You can get a serious high powered laptop, that can handle the most intense games, for 2k or less. And it's portable. And there are high quality usb powered aux monitors to add screenspace. I guess some people are just too old school to know there are sweet new options.

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PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

Yes and no. CPUs and GPUs in a laptop will always be less powerful and will be limited even beyond that because of physics. Thermals especially on modern laptops are kind of tragic. You have to make all components low power to start with and it doesn't take much before they start throttling.

And you can build a better performing tower usually for considerably less.

And they only get more expensive if you are one of the dummies paying 2K for a 80 or 90 series Nvidia GPU.

I would be willing to pit my midrange tower against just about any laptop.

Oh and find me a laptop under 2K that can be upgrade to 64GBs of RAM. and 7 TBs of storage.

Laptops have their place but there will never be parity with desktops.