P_C or Laptop
I need a new desktop for my home. Was wondering about getting a laptop and using a big screen on my desk. Are laptops as durable as desktops?
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tpi wrote:
Call me old fashioned but I still have a big ol tower PC desktop at home, and an Apple laptop for travel. Love the desktop w/ generic parts, solid state system drive, and my giant obsolete IBM clicky keyboard. The whole thing w/ large LED monitor is computer heaven!
Once consideration the Macbook Air draws only about 10-15 watts. This big unit is drawing 90 right now and hardly doing anything.
Why be old fashioned when it serves no purpose?
You can get all those things with a lapop. At the office, slip the laptop into a docking station and have twin 20" screens, an old clicky keyboard. Functionally, you can't tell the difference other than you don't have a big box under the desk.
I'm in engineering and most people have transitioned to laptops. The exception is for people who run data intensive programs, a high end Desktop (a laptop is a PC) can still outperform a high end laptop (but the gap has closed dramatically, I do a fair bit of modeling and I'm fine with a laptop).
For your average user, you can buy a cheap laptop that will do internet and email for around $250-300. The only downside is by the time they get 3-4yrs old the batteries don't hold much charge (of course, most desktops don't hold any charge from day 1 so comparatively, the laptop is still better).
