@Sarnecki said:
Lets say 2500 is my ceiling. Since I have a GTX560 in my desktop PC I'm considering buying a laptop with one 560, then ripping out my desktop 560 and dual running both cards in the laptop. Save money and double performance.
While you -could- do that, adding an external graphics card to a laptop that doesn't have something like thunderbolt is a serious amount of work, right? The amount of soldering you'd need to do is crazy and even someone like myself, who constantly pulls laptops apart to component level finds the thought of adding an external GPU like this a daunting task. Not to mention, as someone else pointed out, you're seriously limited by a very slow PCI-E bus.
On top of that, a laptop 560 does not compare to a desktop 560. The performance isn't even close, as compromises have to be made in order to make something portable that won't kill your battery before you can boot into windows or turn your laptop into a ball of molten slag because of heat.
Sorry, I don't really have any recommendations when it comes to laptop gaming. I find the whole idea a bit goofy as you're constantly going to be tethered to an outlet, whether you're gaming or not. There aren't any "gaming" class laptops I could recommend, as I recommend systems that -I- would personally use.
If I wanted mobile gaming, I'd probably look at an HP Envy 15. Powerful enough to run games on medium-high, but light enough and portable enough to be a laptop you can actually carry around. Then, with the remaining 1k money, I'd build a PC dedicated to your home theater. Use dropbox to sync your game saves across the platforms.
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