I feel like I see a fair amount of gaming laptops in the US but a majority of people seem to still game on desktop. I guess what I am looking for is a ratio of one versus the other otherwise a country like China might dominate on numbers alone.
When looking for searching online for this I was mostly coming across pros and cons lists.
Here in Brazil it’s extremely common. Computer hardware is very expensive, which means most people don’t get the chance to buy individual components and learn about them - if you have to pay 20x the minimum wage for a computer, you’re not taking the chance of doing something wrong and breaking something.
So if most users aren’t familiar with hardware, a laptop is the way to go. This is very slowly changing as a desktop PC gaming setup is becoming more desirable on platforms like TikTok, it’s an “aesthetic” or something. Some games also simply will not run well on laptops, unless you buy those weird gigantic things with bizarre wind turbines and convoluted screen folding mechanisms, but those are even more expensive than desktop computers already are.
I absolutely love desktops though, so I’ve always built them. I’ve also had to explain to my family, on two separate instances, why the family computer no longer turns on lol
Thank you for responding. This is the kind of information I was after.
How do you find the used market in Brazil?
Is there a market for buying traditional office PCs and adding a graphics card like there is here in the US?
That’s unfortunately not a thing here - offices and schools do not dump, discard or otherwise get rid of old equipment like that. We rarely do full upgrades. Usually they’ll upgrade to new computers only when absolutely needed, and the old one becomes the new secretary PC or a backup server or something. If it can’t be salvaged at all, it’s sold as scrap.
What is much more common are people riding the AliExpress combo of an Intel Xeon, a motherboard with some weird custom BIOS, and used GPUs.
I’m not sure I follow this, desktops are generally cheaper. And if a part is bad you can replace just that part, you have better cooling so things should last longer, and you can buy and sell parts. So both short and long term it should be cheaper.
I think op’s argument is that there is a chance of fucking up building a desktop and having wasted money. Just buying a laptop is a safe route, even if its not necessarily the cheapest.
Yeah I guess but most people buy them prebuilt. Still cheaper.
Hourly? Daily?
In America that would be: 150 or 1,200
But that’s gross, I don’t know how different taxes are.
But I thought prices were high due to tarrifs? Surely some basic parts could be bought without tarrifs. Especially just the savings of being able to hook up to any TV as a monitor.
It makes it easier to upgrade slowly overtime to, which helps with the tariffs.
Minimum wage in Brazil is around $280 per month. So we’re probably talking about monthly wages here.