Gaming PC suggestions

I have done several builds off of this mag

https://www.pcgamer.com/

If you have a Microcenter near you they have pretty good deals on prebuilt stuff. Go in and tell them what you want to do with one and what you have to spend and they can hook you up. 

Hard to be able to offer advice without some more info dude. PC’s can be reasonable priced but I’d always suggest building your own over pre-packaged so you can try and make it as future-proof as possible. Also if you shop around for parts, especially coming up to black friday, you can generally find some really good deals. 

I use this site: https://pcpartpicker.com to do my builds, it will find you the best deals from a range of places and save you some $$$$. 

Building it yourself isn’t as intimidating as you’d think, is immensely satisfying  and definitely cheaper. If you can stretch your budget to about $1500, you’ll have something you can update the graphics card on that will stay current for about 3-5 years. 

The big question is how much money do you want to spend?

Honeslty dude PCs are as much a black hole as motocross, you could drop 10k into a build if you went full nerd. The thing for me is that if you spend more now, you get something you can upgrade here and there that will last you five years or more. If you go drop a grand at a store, you’ll be spending that same money three times over in eighteen months as your lad grows and wants to go into more demanding (on the pc) games. Similar for you if you like shooters.

My advice, find a local specialist and go talk to them, shop around and use some forums like overclockers etc. There’s plenty of sites like Newegg, Scan, Ebuyer and so on do some decent off the shelf builds too. 

The one I built myself last year was basically this if you’re interested: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/XGgTwY

Quick sidebar question, looking at MX bikes and thinking it could be a fun venture and just need a laptop to cover that game. The cheapest thing to get the job done right. Anyone know of a good laptop that can run mx bikes without breaking the budget? I won't be using for anything but that game specifically. I have a brand new Mac but I don't believe the game is able to run on apple products unless someone knows something i dont?

Iv'e always found PC gamer (mentioned above) to be invaluable whenever I get back into it. If gaming is the priority then I'd start at their favourite GPU's (as this is still the most important part for a gaming focused machine)  https://www.pcgamer.com/the-best-graphics-cards/ 

Search youtube for the contenders at your price point, get a feel for how they perform with the games he likes and what the competition (AMD and now Intel) can also offer at said price point - as well as the previous generation contenders etc (I'm still on a now ageing 3060 ti but can usually wind everything up at 1080p and sometimes even 1440p with little to no problems). Then pair that with a suitable CPU and compatiable MB. Just go step by step.

PSU, MB, CPU, GPU, RAM (in a case with fans) - that's really your PC right there. 

Then you add a mouse, keyboard, obviously monitor etc fire the whole thing up and install your OS and you're away. If I can say one thing you absolutely don't want to skimp on though and that's the PSU (power supply unit). It's not so much the big watt numbers that matter as much as the quality of the build (company that made it). https://www.pcgamer.com/best-power-supply-unit-for-pc-gaming-our-top-psu-for-pc/

For all parts index https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/hardware/

Ready made complete builds https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/hardware/gaming-pcs/

I bought a ready-made setup at Costco for $1,000. Have yet to find something that it can’t run at high spec.