Why would he even have a gaming laptop if he's not gaming on the road or regularly switching between two apartments? Maybe if he was a uni student, needing to bring his own laptop to the campus and not being wealthy enough to have both a desktop gaming PC and an office laptop for studies, but he's a high school kid. He just wanted a laptop for no particular reason and is now lamenting the difficulty of upgrading. Unless it was totally out of his hands, with his parents telling him they will only get a laptop for him.