Growing up I think every family had a big computer that the whole family would use and would end up being super slow and not there when you need it when you go outside of the house. I fell victim to this problem as well. I always have needed a great performing computer but at the same time I need something that I can take everywhere with me when I go out and about playing video games at a friends house or when I am at school because I took a bunch of technology classes. I have always been huge into video games and always played them at my friends house and at home but with big family computers there was very little performance and they would always crash or be super slow because these computers were not meant for this type of use.
When I was 17 I finally said enough was enough and bought myself my first laptop and man was I not expecting the price. Being a poor teenager who wanted to game but could not afford those expensive gaming laptops I made a compromise and got the best bang for my buck and got a laptop that can run video games decently but had more features I needed for school like it folded into tablet form which was amazing since I was going into UX/UI design for my future career so it would be something I would use constantly so I thought. It played the games I liked at the time and looked great but newer games came out and caused me so many problems because technology was moving so rapidly but I can not afford to upgrade a full computer to meet my demands. When I started college I decided to give up computer gaming because there was no way I could do it anymore unless it was older games which was fine for about 2 years because I just played my new Xbox and worked just great.
Forward ahead now to me getting married in 2020 and starting my job working from home this was very rough. My work gave me a laptop and it was better than my current one which was great but they ran so slow. I did not realize just how demanding everything has gotten with working with 30 tabs and things like that. I was spending 15 hours a day sitting in an office and 5 of those hours was me waiting to get things done while things load and still having issues with games. Since I worked from home and had some down time I took up gaming again and found it to still be impossible.
I met my wife’s friend’s husband and he built himself one of those big tower computers and said he has had no issues since building his and just keeps a laptop for simple on the go tasks or when playing simple games at friends houses. I decided to take him up on the offer and build my first PC and to this day have 0 regrets because I use this computer all the time and have 0 issues. Whenever something needs upgrades it is so much cheaper to upgrade a part than an entire laptop. It has been much more cost effective but did take a good amount to build but now I have a computer that does what I want with no compromises. I did keep my laptop and still use it but the entire workhorse of my office is my custom built PC.