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I always hear console apologists say this, and they can't explain why. Why is a gaming laptop hooked up with an HDMI cable to your HDTV somehow more difficult to power on than a console hooked up with the same cable? If its because of peripherals, there have always been a multitude of peripherals available for the PC. Heck, you can use a wii or xbox controller just fine, although most people choose not to since accuracy tends to suffer. I stick with an Anywhere MX, but they also have air-mice/air-remotes, trackballs, touchpads, etc.
I do for the most part, but you can also get one that has a docking station if you are clicking and unclicking often. Laptop was a good form factor for me since it was small and quiet and I have a small screen so I don't have to power on my 60" or projector if I'm just jamming to tunes through my home theater sound system.
No you don't, you move the mouse or press the power button on the windows remote. And every game is loaded onto the harddrive, you don't have to go to your closet, open up the jewel case for the game you want to play, take out the old one, pop in the new one and wait for it to load.
And yeah, reading data off a modern SSD is slightly faster than off a bluray or DVD.You certainly don't have to have a password set, and waking a computer with a SSD takes a second or two tops.
You don't HAVE to do any of those things, but you certainly have the OPTION which is wonderful. You can use voice commands like the Xbox if you want. You can use an onscreen keyboard if you care to, and it certainly won't be any more of a PITA than an onscreen keyboard with a playstation or xbox controller. The plethora of options available makes that nonsense, and its better to have an option than to have none IMO.
This is another one of those completely idiotic comments, sorry. 2014 technology is 2014 technology, whether you put it in a console or a generic PC. Old consoles simply are already configured to play the games with very low settings, recently with the 360 usually a lowly 720p resolution, very limited draw distance, no anti-aliasing, and so forth. On a similar aged PC, you would likewise simply either set the settings yourself to be just as low, or in most games today it analyzes your computer and does it for you, hands free.
I do for the most part, but you can also get one that has a docking station if you are clicking and unclicking often. Laptop was a good form factor for me since it was small and quiet and I have a small screen so I don't have to power on my 60" or projector if I'm just jamming to tunes through my home theater sound system.
No you don't, you move the mouse or press the power button on the windows remote. And every game is loaded onto the harddrive, you don't have to go to your closet, open up the jewel case for the game you want to play, take out the old one, pop in the new one and wait for it to load.
You certainly don't have to have a password set, and waking a computer with a SSD takes a second or two tops.
You don't HAVE to do any of those things, but you certainly have the OPTION which is wonderful. You can use voice commands like the Xbox if you want. You can use an onscreen keyboard if you care to, and it certainly won't be any more of a PITA than an onscreen keyboard with a playstation or xbox controller. The plethora of options available makes that nonsense, and its better to have an option than to have none IMO.
This is another one of those completely idiotic comments, sorry. 2014 technology is 2014 technology, whether you put it in a console or a generic PC. Old consoles simply are already configured to play the games with very low settings, recently with the 360 usually a lowly 720p resolution, very limited draw distance, no anti-aliasing, and so forth. On a similar aged PC, you would likewise simply either set the settings yourself to be just as low, or in most games today it analyzes your computer and does it for you, hands free.
And in fact you stumbled on one of the stupid things about a console. Your entire game library is now obsolete unless you keep the last generation console around. If I want to but out Sid Meiers Pirates! for shits and giggles, I just launch it on my new computer. And did I mention that its been heavily modded by the community? That's another thing that can give older games (or even current ones) a lot more enjoyability, that simply isn't an option on consoles... at least not without paying $5 a pop for microtransaction little mods.
With regard to the argument that some people are too stupid to use a computer simply because it has so many more functions it could confuse them, fine, I can certainly see there is a segment of the population that lacks the education and general IQ to handle more than a Xbox One. But for someone on this forum to use that argument? That's what gets me.
I did get a smartphone about 2.5 years ago. That is something I use a lot, esp. when I'm not home. It helps that I still have the unlimited data plan.
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I use a desktop at work for specific tasks but, there is no way I am taking my desktop onsite to do work. Laptops are also overkill for most onsite tasks and is much heavier than a tablet. (I am referring to Windows based tablets that can actually get work done.)