Desktops Vs. Laptops

Which do you preffer and if you can give us a little reason why

Laptop or Desktop??

If laptop, mini laptop or full size?
If desktop, full size tower, media rig or??

For me I love my standard desktop (Fits ATX), just the ability to upgrade with soooo much ease and for some reason I see them as easier to trouble shoot than laptops and I dont know why. I think it's just how much less effort is involved in pulling one apart.

 

I like both, and have both....actually i like my desktop and I like that my wife uses the laptop.
I use the laptop but not nearly as much as my desktop. I play games, therefore i like a larger monitor. I have a better sound system on my desktop. And like you, I can upgrade whatever I please, usually for alot cheaper than a laptop. But, it's nice to know i have a laptop and am able to take it wherever i want (usually to work to watch movies)
As far as the mini laptops, or netbooks, theyre cool, but i don't like looking at a small screen, even when I'm just surfing the net or facebook or w.e.

To each his own.

 

I like my Desktop myself... I like the fact it has a smaller tower than the norm, but has quite a bit packed inside... So much more than it looks...

I like the fact that it is in ONE spot, and I can access it anytime. It is convenient for me, and does what I want... Hasn't failed me yet..

 

Desktop. Can't just lay it down and forget it when you walk away or have someone grab it from you while walking along.

 

I'll have to go with the desktop also and, mainly, for all the reasons mentioned above, gaming, ease and cost of upgrading, etc. It's a mid tower that I built a few years ago and, granted, it's no powerhouse but I'm happy with it!!

 

Desktop, ditto

 

I mean don't get me wrong I own a laptop, an Acer Aspire One but I built my desktop from scratch and see it as my main rig my laptop for when Im in the car.

 

Desktop, offers a larger screen size, and more power for my AutoCAD. I don't need a laptop, haven't been at a gas station yet and thought about my email.

 

I've worked with desktops and laptops... for portability, laptop is it... but I have found that having a desktop offers more .....
Therefore Desktop is the choice ... no question.

Shelagh

 

So far the Desktop is winning by a storm haha 9 - 0 so far

 

If I'm honest, at home I don't need either. I use and would prefer a desktop at work, but at home, just to cruise the internet, I use my PS3, it has a nice 47" LCD screen. LOL

 

At work I use a desktop
At home I use a desktop
Out and about I use a laptop

 

I am all for Desktops, I have a laptop but can't get my Nvida graphics card in it.

 

Haha. Wouldn't it be great if you just plugged it into the side.

 

Desktop for > Power
: > Flexibility
: > Upgradability, (yes, it is word, Laura. LOL)
: >Cost-effectiveness.


However:- There are situations in the field, that require portability. Then there is substitute for a laptop. ~ Not into postage stamp size screens and keyboards that need little knitting needle diameter fingers to operate, so no to palm and 'mini' laptops.

 

Desktop! Power, Authority, Cost effective upgrades or redesign. I have 5.
Laptop...portability. That's about it. I have 2.

 

My desktop is nice, my laptop is pretty cool...
I <3 my netbook

 

Acer Aspire one In blue?

 

laptops suck for me.
but that is just me.
to each, his own.

 

Only thing I can add to that is a full sized keyboard and a large monitor of my choosing, besides I don't need the portability.

 

Desktop = MORE POWWAAAAA!!!!:major

 

I have both, and use both, but I prefer my desktop. My laptop overheats constantly and shuts down with no warning, so until I can afford to buy a cooler I use it only when necessary for documents (the video card is the problem, a known one). Also, I can never get as comfortable using a laptop on a desk, no matter what kind or how it's positioned.

 

Desktops by far,I've had a few laptops I never use them and eventually sell them which is the one great thing about laptops you can usually get a decent price when you sell them on unlike desktops which are as bad as cars for holding value.

To me laptops are a novelty,you think it would be great to go everywhere using the internet but it just gets old.

 

So far desktops are really smashing the laptop votes haha

 

I don't want to know how you know.
Ok well, actually I do.
Edit: Fail
It was from the post your rig thread, right?

 

Haha yep where you posted a pic of it - infact 3 pics haha.

That is how I know

 

So I'm not being stalked.
Whoosh.

 

Don't start that again. rolleyes

 

Come on people get voting!!

 

Well, I own both. I use my desktop though because it is faster with a bigger screen.

 

I see this more and more often being the reason for people voting desktop.

 

Not true. I don't have a lap top, (but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night) No, really though, when I was working on my moms a while back, I used an HDMI cable and hooked it up to my 47" LCD TV, and the monitor was well big enough then.

Seriously, I like having a large monitor, I'm waiting for the new flexible TV's to be incorporated into laptops. Maybe a thin laptop with a monitor that folds into thirds to close. Know what I mean?

 

23 votes! COME ON we have more users than this on MG!!

 

Yes, but many of them never come to the Lounge, as they are here to give and receive tech support.

 

I arrived here to give tech support but a little lounge never killed me

 

Fair enough. But quite a large number of people here only use the tech forums.

 

LOL I love this as it made me think, The instant answer is desktop, the truth is I use my laptop way more just because it is so portable and I have made it where I can do almost anything with it that I can my desktop, so I wanted to prove to myself which one, well I guess the best proof was that the lappy was up to date and the desktop needed several updates.....hmmm guess I need to use it more or at least leave it on past 3am update time, so I will say my desktop, even though I am doing this on my laptop!

 

My family fights over the desktop. We have enough laptops in the house that almost everyone could use on at the same time but if someone is off the desktop there is another person waiting to use it. I like it better because it is just more comfortable to use.

 

Agreed. I also think this poll needs at least two more options. One "I don't case, as long as it gets the job done" and one "that depends on the situation, I have both".

I am on the laptop right now, since I wanted to sit in the main family room with The Guy and watch football with him. Last night I was on my desktop playing games, which most laptops are poorly suited for. The way I see it, they both have their place, and they both have something they are better at than the other. So my vote goes to, "that depends on the situation, I have both"

And to address a comment made earlier, that means I didn't actually vote on the poll, since the only option that would be true for me, is not an option there.

 

Amen, where can we get one!!

 

Desktop vote for me...Build my own and it can handle more than any laptop. I do have a laptop though, but the preference is desktop.

 

Desktop. Full size tower. Games, yo.

 

Love that solution,so, where can we find a computer like that!
I like my desktop.

 

I have one of each.

Ends all the debate.

:-D

 

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If they were to make a keyboard like you find on a desktop, but on a laptop, then I'd probably get a laptop. Otherwise, I find them a big pain to work with.

Now, if I had to deal with switches a lot, then, I'd be buying serial to IP boxes.

Until then, perhaps I need to look into getting a portable.

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