Quote:For web/music/movies, yes a more expensive laptop can match a desktop.About 3 months ago i finally finished converting a LOT of vinyl records (~3500 discs) to FLAC. Which were collected by a lot of people, me, my parents, my friend, and a huge part came from a closed music store.
Most of them are either rare and unavailable on CDs. It took 5 months and 30 magnetic cartridges. The whole archive is about 2.4Tb, about 1/6 of my PCs disk space (30Tb NAS not included). It's simply impossible to fit it on laptop without external hard drives which will make a crippled desktop out of laptop.
And no need to tell me about those industrial/military/whatever rugged "laptops" that use 2.5" server SAS drives, yeah it's not uncommon to have a space for 2 drives in these. But... $130k for a heavy machine which have features barely needed for home/office use is a bit too much, i can't even imagine a home desktop configuration for that price, not a desktop-sized supercomputer, because workstation with top professional video card and a reference display costs about a half of that or even less.
Also well, laptops can play movies and music. But what's about quality ? Most laptops have shitty LCD panels, and sound well, cheapest codecs, never heard of full hardware sound cards in modern laptops. So forget about good sound unless you're using external sound card, forget about a good picture unless you're using external display.
Why bother with those "superlaptops" then ? It's better to have a normal desktop if you have enough space in your room and inexpensive laptop if you need to move somewhere.
For me, i barely use "normal" laptop at home - i have a quite powerful desktop, so when i need to play a modern game, Dolphin,PCSX2, some heavy game in MAME, or work with Blender/Maya i'll use it for that task. When i need to move to other room, netbook is more than enough, at least i'm able to play SNES/Genesis/NeoGeo/etc games for 6-7 hours on battery, laptop lasts only for a 2 hours or so, not to mention that when i played just a CPS-2 game it heats enough to cook something
