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Decisions about new desktop or laptop
Basically, I'm only 15. (I'm one of the smarter 15 year olds who actually knows how to program and how computers work). Either way, my dad has decided that my old, slow as drying paint, desktop (the one that started in the days of early windows vista) is too slow and unusable. He's decided that he'd chip in on getting me a new computer, although he has given me a choice of getting a desktop or laptop.
I was originally skeptical about laptops because I thought they were only used for word processing and things like that, but after seeing my friends laptop run a screen share, and Skyrim at 60 frames while hosting a hamachi server on Garry's mod for his brother to play on, I decided that a laptop may not be that bad.
I know that a desktop can deliver more power but I like the mobility of the laptop. Also, I do a lot of game development in the background using programs like 3Ds max, Maya and Unity. These are all 64 bit programs so whatever I get must be 64 bit.
Now I'm wondering, how much would a laptop that could handle things like Skyrim and Maya at a good frame rate cost? What specs would be in it? I just want something that can run a game well at medium graphics and can handle game development.