Laptop/Desktop Conversation

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(04-27-2012, 05:00 AM)Shonumi Wrote: Keyboard ergonomics is important to a lot of users with carpal tunnel (or those who want to avoid it) and those with repetitive strain injuries. For many, wrist pads beneath the keyboard aren't enough, so an new ergonomic keyboard is required. With a desktop, users need only buy a new keyboard to replace the old one. The laptop, however, requires users to plug in a secondary keyboard, which must be accounted for in terms of placement and space.

Users could place the keyboard directly on top of the laptop's keyboard. Or they could place it in front of the laptop, while increasing the distance to the screen and the actual machine. Either method sacrifices some measure of ease-of-use, or at the very least comes off as awkward. Nevertheless getting keyboard ergonomics to work with a desktop and laptop are both equally doable. In this case, however, one could easily feel that a specific form factor is more optimal than others.

I'm not really following that too much. Keyboard? That's the reason? That's a really weak excuse to use a desktop over a laptop, but okay, if that's your preference, I can live with that.

He said it's "better" and the poll option is worded as "laptops aren't good for everything", but the laptop processor is every bit as good as his desktop processor in this case, so he must not be talking about the CPU. So what exactly is "better"? I can lay the laptop on the desk, turn it on and do exactly what he's going to do, so what am I missing? I just really want to get to the bottom of where this is coming from and so far, there is no satisfying answer. Somehow I have a feeling that people still have the age-old misconception about laptops and are just not able to get away from that argument for whatever reason even though it makes no sense anymore. Maybe things will become more clear as others post and then this thread can come to its eventual end.