Why gaming laptops?

[Azure-Supernova]

-Versatility. You can play high-end games with maxed out graphics, play movies and music, you can even write your thesis.
-Portability. Whether you're in your room, in the classroom (am I the only one who played WoW during boring lectures?), or on the GO-train for your hour long commute.
-Accessibility of Wifi. Even Gulak's Meat House on the floor above the corner-store has free wireless these days.

Versatility: A desktop can do those things.
Portability: The lecture thing sounds like a bad idea. While I can't refute gaming on a train, I will say it isn't the only thing you can do on a train.
The third thing: A regular laptop can do that. Also, do you really need to have internet access 24/7 wherever you are?

Hell I've built Micro ATX desktops that perform better than a decent ASUS I checked it against and carried all of those benefits (again except the train one). Wireless cards are cheap as chips nowadays.

 

[Kanlic]

Really? My friends and I managed to stuff four desktops into a dorm room(sure monitors were sitting on laps, but we did it!). There were two desktops in most dorm room at my college.

Well maybe your room was bigger, but I am finding it hard to stuff three people into our already small room. Anyways, another reason why I justify my laptop for gaming purposes is that I like to keep all my stuff in one place. Having to juggle my information between two computers would cause a headache for me. Besides, I've had some pretty sick League of Legends games based solely on the ability to gather a 5 person team in one room via laptops

 

[azzurro27]

I don't have a full on gaming laptop but it has a decent gfx card and is more than enough to play DA:O, fable 3, f1 2010, starcraft 2, assassins creed 2 smoothly on decent settings (max for DA;O but that's not too hard).

I bought it instead of upgrading my pc because I wanted a machine I could keep all my media on, do assignments on, play games on and surf the net on. I can do all of this without having to restricted myself to a single room in the house and I like that everything is on the one machine. I get that the post is about 'Gaming laptops' but id say the reason is the same, you want something you can do everything on, it doesn't have to be ultra portable to be way more versatile.

 

[Dr. Pepper Unlimited]

I use to do my gaming from laptops and did so through the course of three different machines. I loved how portable it was since my group jumped from house-to-house for various LAN parties - it also doubled as my school laptop for taking notes in classes. However, the cost doesn't justify the cost anymore and I've switched back to desktop gaming and I'm never going back. My desktop blows any gaming laptop out of the water and it was half the cost.

 

[Saulkar]

Because I choose to. It is called free will and I exercise it.

 

[Saulkar]

Besides, the other things I mentioned that you snipped also reasonably justify getting one.

 

[WanderingFool]

some people just don't want to have to deal with 2 machines simple. Or they're like me and my family which like to game with each other during family get togethers and don't want to lug around monitors and a tower everytime.

That was my reason for buying my ASUS laptop. I could have baught a cheaper laptop, but as the money was not my "own" (long story short, mother anf father controlled my purse strings), there was no way I could convice them to buy a desktop for gaming. Needing a laptop for school, and not being able to swing for a gaming desktop, a gaming laptop was my answer. A gaming laptop is not perfect, but it is a reasonable option if you dont want to fuck with two computers.

Though, I dont play too many PC games, all the ones I own are Oblivion, FO3, COD:BO, Homefront, and Brink, as well as a few F2P MMOs ive tried.

Really? i bought an asus as well. What model did you get.

ASUS G60 series.

 

[Zeekar]

The laptop or the girlfriend?

Nice one.

Seriously, though. If you need to take your computing power WITH YOU anywhere, and your main computing power at home is shared, a gaming laptop makes sense. Generally, though, I agree with you that it's pretty pointless.

It's nice to be able to know that you have something that can run anything when your main computer is in use, especially if it has the dual purpose of being portable.