I've been there, splurged on an alienware 17 a while ago, but mostly I only use it on the road now. I went with desktop because I wanted everyone in the house

I've been there, splurged on an alienware 17 a while ago, but mostly I only use it on the road now. I went with desktop because I wanted everyone in the house to have a decent machine and I could get several I5s for less than $70 apiece (5 machines, one in each bedroom) and wanted easy/cheap upgrades for some of them, and they are all the same optiplex model, which makes my life easier. I like my desktop setup a lot though, 3.3ghz I-5, 27" 1080, 16 gig ram, 1tb ssd, 8tb in "cold storage", g402 mouse, gt710 vid, clicky keyboard, Nubwo N2 headset, decent posture, 100+ fps gaming. Probably threw $500 at it above the initial $70 though, but most of the machines didn't get that treatment, but their users aren't using it to make a living either.