What is the difference between a gaming laptop and standard laptop?

Before the days of windows, when I first set my eyes on a computer I said “They are the future” 35yrs later, I still say they are the future, I bought my son his first computer in 1978, it cost me more than my house cost, he learned computer programming. Today he is a highly paid computer program developments engineer. Who travels the world doing his job,

A computer today is the best educational tool a child could ever have, By all means buy him the best that you can afford, but if you allow him to play games on it all the time you are not doing him any favors, you're going to kill his innovation to explore other things that he can do with a computer. Like making his own computer games, that's how my son started, he made his own basic games

I am going to have to educate you first and save you hundreds of dollars, Window and Mac are not the only computer operating systems in the world. there are others that are Free they are faster, superior and far more advanced the operating system is up to date November/December 2013, with over 43,600 free professional application software packages, and 1,800 free games, including educational software on every subject known, that will take your son through high school, collage and university

here are some of the free computer operating systems and educational software

http://edubuntu.org/

http://uberstudent.org/

Computer programming for kids this is being used in schools in Estonia to teach first graders computer coding and in schools in the uk to teach 3rd graders

check here

http://scratch.mit.edu/

Remember education begins at home and ends at home. You are the one that's responsible for his education, not schools or teachers

A gaming laptop has a discrete video card although it depends on the games that he might be playing. If he is doing MineCraft he might get away with just the processor's integrated graphics. Do some research on it if you have to but here is a link: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/pc-gaming-hardware/gam...