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Now that I have read through the whole thread, I guess we should know what you are using now to access the internet. Maybe you don't even need a gaming PC to play CIV 6.
Also, this may seem way out of left field, but these days there are options for getting into PC gaming that are neither a laptop nor a desktop, and are rather affordable. The handheld market may be well suited for you. The most popular of these platforms in the SteamDeck which looks kind of like a Nintendo Switch, but is more powerful and has a library of PC games it can run, including CIV 6.
The SteamDeck even has a dock that allows you to use a mouse and keyboard with it and connect it to a monitor or TV, but gives you the option of taking it with you.
Also, if handhelds seem like a viable option for you there are really good handhelds that run Windows, so you could dock them and use them as a regular PC if you wanted, but they are built with gaming in mind. Those will cost you more than a SteamDeck, though.
A SteamDeck with ~500GB of storage will run you about $620 including the dock.
An ASUS ROG Ally with the same storage capacity would be $780, or $980 with 2TB of storage. This wouldn't include a dock, but any PC dock should work since they are all UCB-C connected these days.
Also, this may seem way out of left field, but these days there are options for getting into PC gaming that are neither a laptop nor a desktop, and are rather affordable. The handheld market may be well suited for you. The most popular of these platforms in the SteamDeck which looks kind of like a Nintendo Switch, but is more powerful and has a library of PC games it can run, including CIV 6.
The SteamDeck even has a dock that allows you to use a mouse and keyboard with it and connect it to a monitor or TV, but gives you the option of taking it with you.
Also, if handhelds seem like a viable option for you there are really good handhelds that run Windows, so you could dock them and use them as a regular PC if you wanted, but they are built with gaming in mind. Those will cost you more than a SteamDeck, though.
A SteamDeck with ~500GB of storage will run you about $620 including the dock.
An ASUS ROG Ally with the same storage capacity would be $780, or $980 with 2TB of storage. This wouldn't include a dock, but any PC dock should work since they are all UCB-C connected these days.
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