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Seamonk:

I would certainly suggest a laptop for you. I gain a ton of productivity out of my macbookpro. In fact, I am sitting at City Beverage nursing an adult beverage and some free wifi right now.

I will probably always have a tower system too, but if I had to give up one of the other, the desktop would the first to die.

With my dad, it is complicated. (Thanks for the link love to my blog series.) He’s neither a mega-geek nor requires mega portability. Anyway, think you are confused now… wait until I do my mac versus XP/Vista post.

Let us know what you decide.

Left by davak on May 8th, 2008

Well i still thing a desktop pc is the best.
I m not a gamer myself but after trying the two sides of the coin i still fall the the desktop choice.
The things that make me still love the desktop:

- One of the things that kills my joy is the lack of hard drive space on laptops and as an addicted to downloads, photoshop, customization, my own dvdrips, subs creation, css, blog, notes, software, multi boots, wmware,… it makes my life harder in a laptop! And external hard drives aren’t a solution because in my six month try in a laptop i already were using two 500gb external cases that kills all the “portable” word of a laptop.
- the other thing is the work vs leisure time. With the laptop i started to bring more work into my life.
In the coffee, laptop;
In the library, laptop;
In the weekend outside, laptop again;
It was always in my backpack.
And it was always in my life.
- multitasking is another one. My “ex” laptop was a dual core, 4gb ram etc but even with that it was still laking the good old performance of desktop pc. Even more, it was strange to me seeing that my laptop with wmware, photoshop,firefox with 20+ tabs was already putting all is cooling at is maximum. And because of that it was killing completely the battery ( i did some tweaks but it was the same). Do i need to do less multitasking because of the battery… i didn’t want to change my habits because of a lack of power and long period work time hot problem.
- multi storage places. So lets see i have a “old pc”, a laptop, a media pc (in my living room), and a router to share the internet/Lan. And the problem is the sync of all my work. Today i make a post in my blog in my laptop, tomorrow i work in a autocad (noob) project in my pc and with time i start to divide my work. I tried file sync programs and they worked but why do i need multi platforms? what is too much?
- video performance, many say why good graphic cards? Its only for gamers. But thats not it. It realy helps in the video playing performance. One of the thing i did hate in my laptop was that when my friends send to me movies in 1080p MKVs of 4.5gb, my laptop didn’t have the “juice”. If i start the movie and play it normally there was no problem but when i star jumping from place to place it was dam anoing the need to wait 5 seconds in each jump. Even more because i need to see if the subtitles are right in the precise time.
- keyboard, its stupid but i love the normal keyboard.
- USB`s - two pens, two external hard drives, headsets, web cam, printer… i find it hard to maintain so much in so less usbs… here come the hubs.
- the size of the screen … no one tell me that 15,4″ is the same as a 19″. A normal 19″ or + size screen is fantastic to work, see movies and multi tasking….

- and many more…. but this is getting big… lol

well in the end i sold my laptop. I have right now a good desktop pc. with no external hard drives, no multitasking problems, good 19″ screen and a backup system for my main data in my router. I love to change and fix my own hardware, and make it last long years.
I found that i am not a laptop user. but i do have a usb-pen with portable software and a good phone and that is all i need.
One more thing you have a great blog here. I started visiting your blog last year… and i still do today!
Sorry my poor english

Sirius

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