Laptop/Desktop Conversation

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(04-25-2012, 10:04 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: Why on earth did you move this SS?

I felt like having a discussion about it away from a guys PC building thread.

(04-25-2012, 10:04 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: So....let me get this straight. You wouldn't use a desktop just because they're bigger?

If that's your idea of straight, you're gonna need some help.

I wouldn't buy a desktop. All it can do is sit there, my laptop purchase can sit and go. Why buy a "desktop" to sit and a laptop to go? The laptop does both. It seems like a wasted purchase was just made somewhere, can you see which item lost its purpose because of a dual-purpose item?

You don't even need to be some crazy heavy traveler guy who's always on the move. If I decide to take my computer into the kitchen, living room or bedroom at a moments notice, I can. This is what it's all about, multipurpose and easy to use. This is the reason you would bring your iPod with you if you decided to go for a jog, instead of a tape deck, CD player and speakers.

(04-25-2012, 10:04 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: And you think that size has something to do with age and technology?

Naturally. Have you forgotten the phonebooth and iPhone pictures? Technology turned a phone the size of a small house into something close to a credit card-sized phone. What would you call that?

(04-25-2012, 10:04 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: The fact that you don't use your NES anymore has nothing to do with how big it is.

It has everything to do with it. I actually play NES games quite often, just not on the actual system. The fact that the system is not as easy to use as say, a small game file on the PC is, that makes it not a viable option anymore.

(04-25-2012, 10:04 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: You're also missing the fact that desktops can do some things better than a laptop. You're crazy if you think you can be as productive on a laptop workstation as you can be on a multimonitor desktop workstation. Desktops are not inherently inferior to laptops, they are not "older technology". They are the same technology in a different form factor that is better for different types of tasks. They each have their place in the world.

The list of things that "only" a desktop can do is getting very short, soon there will be no list. I'm not going to totally count out a desktop (yet), but I touched on this before, when you have a cell phone that can make calls inside and outside of the house, there is no reason to set up a phone that can only make calls inside the house.

There was more to help you understand, but I think this will do.