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Things to consider

Cheap laptops (sub 400) usually have sub 1080p screens. Some that cost more even don't have full HD but that's rarer. You do have to jump to a significant price range to get anything higher than that. Even a basic decent 1080 monitor is only 100 bucks.

If you build say like a fast ryzen 3 system without really checking prices and going off the top of my head I'll come to like 700 dollars and that's if you assemble the system yourself. I'll be honest, it's possible to find a laptop that is almost as good or even better within a hundred dollars of that now.

There are other benefits though like

Increased expansion ports
More USB slots
Potential to get a better keyboard (by adding like around 100 bucks to the cost)
Upgrade potential

In your case too you should be free from like heat crashes. Prebuilt machines from like companies at least are speced to work like 99.999% of the time outside of overclocking or extreme pressure. Something someone who is not building their own machine is not going to do. I know from having several laptops that they all overheat at some point. I've had three different fx processors in my desktop builds and none of them overheated outside of heavy stress testing. So technically overall stability (in your case) should be a thing.

However, all of these are nominal things. In your case there would be little real benefit without doing tinkering yourself. There are chances too that your laptop is touch screen also, something I actually consider to be a pretty big benefit now. I've more recently started to move away from laptops and into the tablets as their screens are better and have greater portability.
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Updated: July 27th, 2016.