The Wang-Out: You look adopted.

[brit]

You're paying for build quality and design more than anything. I can pick up a cheap laptop for under £300 but it'll probably be thrown together and run hotter than the surface of the sun.

At the other end of the spectrum all these £2,500 gaming laptops just make me laugh. That quad core processor and top of the line graphics card look great on paper but they'll be old tech in a couple of years, and when you decide to just use it as a regular laptop for web browsing or whatever you'll be fucked because all those wonderful power hungry components mean the battery will last for less than an hour. Switchable graphics have helped overcome this to some degree but you've still got a machine consuming more power than a small Danish village. Battery life, screen quality, build quality and resale value should be the most important things to consider when buying any sort of laptop. Specification comes secondary.

Gaming laptops are the stupidest thing ever. Why are you trying to play games on this tiny ass thing with that tiny ass trackpad in public for anyway? And where would you do it? On the bus? On a plane? In the airport? All places that can have negative effects if you are engrossed in your little shitty battery draining apparatus.

Get a Macbook Air. Save yourself the temptation to play games while at the same time having a dope computer built for a dope OS with impressive battery life.