I'll admit to making the gaming laptop mistake during my university years. I convinced myself the $1,300 price tag was justified because of the other high compu

I'll admit to making the gaming laptop mistake during my university years. I convinced myself the $1,300 price tag was justified because of the other high computing needs I'd be relying on it for. Turns out, I only ever did those things while I was sitting at my desk at home. So a year or so after buying it, I now have a dated machine that has horrible battery life and is dysfunctional to use unless plugged in with a number of peripherals and I might as well just have bought a desktop with a notebook for the things I actually did while on the run. For the average user (who the article is obviously targeting) they'd be hard pressed to justify the price tag of any "gaming" laptop anymore.