Clashero said:
Actually, PC Elitists upgrade every year. Normal people with normal budgets figure that they're already going to buy a computer, so they might as well buy one which can play games. I'm playing on a laptop (again, elitists will tell you that there is no such thing as a gaming laptop) with a 2,13 dual core processor, 4GB of RAM and an NVidia GeForce 9600 GT. If this is all gibberish to you, it means Mass Effect runs faster and better-looking than on a 360, Crysis on High/Very High settings, as well as functioning as an entertainment system. I don't intend to get an upgrade for the next 4 or 5 years. All this cost me $1000.
I'd also like to mention, not for you but for those that don't know, that if you didn't get that same PC in laptop form (I.E. a desktop) it would probably cost you half as much, give or take $100-200. However, you don't get a monitor or keyboard with that money... which really leaves you about only $200 behind the laptop depending on what size you use.
The plus to a desktop is that you can use the same monitor for as long as it works, so you save in the long run over a laptop.
That's sort of the point of a PC. Choice. I can choose to get the best stuff and pay a lot more or I can wait a year for the best stuff to be mediocre, get it, and be just as able to play new games than if I would have spent a crap ton of money on new things.
Because, really, the only true expensive bit of PC gaming are video cards, and they generally come in leap advancements instead of gradual advancements.
