Gaming laptop vs building your own PC

[CurrentThing]

Which one would you go for high intensive computing tasks e.g. gaming, VR, ML?

The gaming laptop would come with everything you need, but with limited customization options, but with a building your own PC, while you have more flexibility, you have to go through quite a hassle to get all the required parts (like importation)

 

[Ole Waru]

Building all the way, with Part picker https://pcpartpicker.com/ you can be sure the parts are compatible plus you have the flexibility of planning for an upgrade in the future. If a component like the gpu or cpu dies on a laptop the whole thing is gone, that's not a good thing.
Cooling is another important thing, there is no way you can get good cooling on a laptop, you'll just be carrying a heater.

 

[CurrentThing]

Building all the way, with Part picker https://pcpartpicker.com/ you can be sure the parts are compatible plus you have the flexibility of planning for an upgrade in the future. If a component like the gpu or cpu dies on a laptop the whole thing is gone, that's not a good thing.
Cooling is another important thing, there is no way you can get good cooling on a laptop, you'll just be carrying a heater.

I agree, cooling is such an important consideration for high performance computing