I´m a bit late to the party but here are my 2.5 euro cents .
I own a low end tablet with detachable keyboard running windows, two laptops and several desktops.

For starters, WTF is a gaming laptop, what defines it? keyboard RGB, racy design and a dedicated GPU?
I ask this because I consider my tablet a gaming device, is extremelly low end but is only used for playing games. Today morning kid was playing PSP´s LocoRoco with touch screen.

I'm not familiar with laptop's version of the 1050 but if the screen resolution is low, then it has more than enough power to play most games. That said, like mystikmind2000 has said, most laptops tech froze in last years. If they have to compete with tablets, at least they should have ANY advantage. My old laptop with a 7 year old, 2 gen i5 can pretty much compete with any dual core of recent generations, including i7's (not in power consumption though).
There are so many things wrong with laptops marketing that wouldn't fit in a book.

Still selling 1360x768 resolution screens, where most things just don't fit in the screen?
Laptop quality can vary a lot, even in the same brand and tier. Some laptop's can hold battery power when suspended for months, others just drain in a few hours.
Why does AMD CPU powered laptops are considered low end, cheap and only employ low end parts like screens, keyboards, hard drives? I've never saw a AMD model that was comparable to Intel in quality of parts (TBH didn't check recently).
Also why does those dual core Celeron powered laptops still sell for more than 150 euros? Those things struggle to open a JavaScript heavy webpage, like facebook. Pretty much should be discontinued 5 years ago, or sold for 100 euros at most, even a 50 € phone/tablet is much more powerfull than that crap.
While we are at it, why do most laptops with integrated GPU come only with 1 stick of RAM, chocking performance by as much as 30%? I never saw a low to mid tier laptop with 2 sticks of RAM.
Windows 10 drains a lof of battery by itself. Newer versions are far better in that regard, when properly configured but still awfull.


To finish the big rant, not always desktops are better purchases than laptops (price to performance), when we consider monitor, keyboard and mouse in the total cost, specially when not comparing higher end stuff.
There are still a few "good" laptop around, mostly on profe$$ional range, like Tecras, Thinkpads and maybe some Dell models