Terminology. The term "PC" is an initialism for "personal computer". While the IBM Personal Computer incorporated the designation into its model name, the term originally described personal computers of any brand. In some contexts, "PC" is used to contrast with "Mac", an Apple Macintosh computer.

Price: If affordability is your concern, most decent gaming PCs start around $700 to $1,000. For that price, you're looking at basic specs such as an Intel Core i5 processor, Nvidia 2000-series GPUs and 8GB to 16GB of RAM. Performance: Think about the type of gaming experience you're after.

A laptop computer or notebook computer, also known as a laptop or notebook, is a small, portable personal computer (PC).

A gaming computer, also known as a gaming PC, is a specialized personal computer designed for playing PC games at high standards. Gaming PCs typically differ from mainstream personal computers by using high-performance graphics cards, a high core-count CPU with raw performance and higher-performance RAM.