Alienware is perhaps, the best gaming hardware manufacturing company known mainly for its legendary PCs, laptops, and many more items. All the products from Alienware are of top build quality and powerful hardware, and they have world-famous customizable RGB lighting that is a treat for your eyes when you turn it on.

It is confusing when it comes to choosing the type of system you want as some prefer Desktop PCs while others prefer laptops, but which one should you buy can help you do your daily tasks efficiently.

This article will go through everything you should remember while choosing a laptop or desktop PC and several factors, including size, price, performance, portability, upgradation, keyboard, power consumption, and durability.

Which is Best: Laptop or Desktop PC?

Looking at the comparison below, we are sure that you will not have any confusion while buying your next gaming or work machine.

Size

Size is perhaps the first thing that comes to mind, right? When upgrading your system but not willing to buy a new table, you will feel uncomfortable using the machine.

As per the latest trend, the powerful hardware is extensive and takes more space; this is where the laptop has the upper hand compared to desktop PCs as they are smaller and compact, but unlike the traditional laptops, you get bigger screens, more weight, and size. However, it is still smaller than most desktop PCs.

The small space can also affect your machine’s performance as it reduces the airflow, directly impacting the performance because the system doesn’t work well at high temperatures, and you can’t achieve the best wire management.

Which Is More Compact, Laptop or PC?

The laptop is a clear winner regarding the size as laptops take less space while desktop PCs require more space.

Price

Building a better desktop than a laptop in the same price range is not a myth, but it is 100% true as Desktop PCs are designed for better performance while laptops aren’t powerful enough but are better for your convenience. However, Alienware laptops overpower most of the other gaming PCs, but they aren’t a good match with top brands.

Which Is Better Priced in Laptop or PC?

Desktop PC wins the Price Round as you can get better hardware at the same or lesser price.

Upgradability

Back in the day, you could only upgrade the RAM and storage in your Alienware laptop, but now you can use Thunderbolt 3.0 can connect eGPU to your laptop, but we don’t recommend using it because it is expensive and it will cause some complications which may increase the thermals of your laptop.

The Alienware Desktop PCs can be upgraded to a certain level, but the modern technologies, of course, require the latest hardware like the DDR5 RAM is supported by 12th gen Intel processors and Ryzen 6000 series from AMD. Many different GPUs, such as AMD, NVIDIA, and some Chinese GPUs, are available for PC on the market. Unlike laptops, the complications are significantly less, and there is a slight chance that you may encounter bottlenecking.

Which is Better for Upgradability?

For the upgradability, we declare the Alienware Desktop PC as the winner.

Specifications and Performance

Currently, the Alienware laptops aren’t a good match for Alienware Desktop PCs as they are more focused on portability and convenience, while the PCs are more at performance and upgradeability.

The GPUs on Alienware laptops are called mobile graphics (m), and the PC graphics are full-powered graphics cards.

Which has a better GPU, Alienware Laptop or Desktop PC?

We tested RTX 3070m (laptop) and RTX3070 (Desktop PC) and found out that the desktop version of the GPU provided us with about 25% better performance.

Which has a better CPU, Alienware Laptop or Desktop PC?

The CPUs on Alienware Desktop PCs performed better in our tests, which is why we conclude that the PC is better regarding CPU performance.

Keyboard

The keyboards on the Alienware laptops and PCs are almost the same, and there is no clear winner as many systems are available with different models of keyboards. You can check our review about The Alienware Gaming Mechanical keyboard.

Power Consumption

The power consumption is directly related to the performance, and since the PC has better performance, it will consume more electrical power, unlike the laptop.

Alienware laptops and PCs are better in performance, and the latest models are power efficient as they automatically deploy only the necessary power to the different components of the PC or laptop, which results in less power consumption.

Durability

Both the laptops and Desktop PCs from Alienware are durable, but laptops being portable is behind when it comes to durability. In contrast, the PC isn’t portable and is significantly less moved, making it more durable.

Conclusion

It is your choice to either go with an Alienware laptop or a PC based on the factors we discussed above, as both have their plus and negative points based on real-world experience by our experts.

If you are a student or a traveler, you should go for a laptop as it is portable, but if you are looking for more performance and want to do heavy editing or gaming, you should go with a desktop PC.