Posted on 06/29/2011 7:01:55 PM PDT by decimon
Get a separate monitor and a full size keyboard. You won’t know the difference except you’re portable.
I have a HP Laptop and love it! I leave the lid up and just lay a small hand towel over the screen and keyboard when not in use. This way it saves the hinges from opening and closing. ..and I can close her up and take her with me in a heartbeat without transferring data etc. I wouldn’t have a desk top...
Saves oodles of space and when I rearrange the room it doesn’t have to be under consideration for placement as a desk top would. Plus I can take it from room to room... it’s just great!
all the time. Have two desktops ready to leave the building.
Laptop is on an closed in a cubby on my roll top desk. Hooked to an external 2TB hard drive a rollerball mouse, keyboard an a large monitor.
I use it as my cpu pretty much an it works great.
Its the HP entertainment model...about 3 years old an I like it.
Other two I use are an ipad an a Mac Air for work.
Works for me...
The right screen is the laptop LCD. It's a widescreen. The left screen is a high res HP flatscreen external. The desktop uses both. I often watch a movie on the right screen and make snarky pro-linux comments on the left. ;)
/johnny
I didn’t have much choice. I move a lot. A desktop is bulky and hard to lug around. I remember setting one up in a motel, covered the whole table. heh.
Sure there are some graphic intense games I cannot play but I can do anything else. I don’t really miss a mouse.
Mrs BN & I both have been using laptops in lieu or desktops for several years.
No problems at all.
Mrs has a Netbook and I bought her a separate LCD monitor at Goodwill for $25, but she seldom uses it.
We have a wireless printer, so we usually work in the living room or dining room and can print in the office if need be.
My laptop has great sound for all types of Music.. and additionally can print anything I want it to print. So if that’s something one wants you can have it with your laptop.
Great.
I have a big iMAC for photo work. I use my MacBook all the time and have no problems. I would not have a laptop as my only computer however.
I’ve been using a laptop in lieu of a desktop for about a year now in a home office environment. I’ve also gone wireless, including my printer.
I’m very satisfied with the arrangement.
I have a similar set up at home — I call it the “island of misfit technology.”
Need an EISA SCSI drive? Or a Windows Sound Board (with 3-1/4” driver disk)?
I finally let go of an old VGA monitor I was hanging on to as well as a 386 IBM Compatible DOS 3.0 PC — hey, don’t laugh it had a 10 MB Winchester HDD!
:)
I know a lot of people using laptops as replacements for desktops but I’m not one of them for a few reasons I won’t go into, ‘cuz I’ll bore you.
Both my wife and I have only laptops. However, the laptops we have are definitely at the higher end for business laptops - one is a Dell Precision and the other is a Dell Latitude.
There's nothing we can't do as well or better for out purposes; however, video editing and cutting edge games would definitely run slower than on a middle-of-the-road new desktop. Everything else is a wash, though. I've done professional sound editing with both without a problem, for instance.
Both of our systems have ultra-high resolution screens (1920x1200 and 1600x1200 respectively) and they are matte screens, not the glossy ones that seem to be bright, but pick up all the glare wherever you sit.
You can plug in either system into virtually whatever monitor you'd like and not have a problem with the resolution matching up to the highest that device would natively have, if you don't like the 15.5 inch-type screens we have (one widescreen and one normal).
Taking the system with you wherever you are is such a plus, as all of your files are always available. Additionally, if you have a cell phone modem, or one of the newer phones with a Wi-Fi hotspot or modem capacity built-in, you can get on the internet in the car while your spouse drives, looking up good restaurants to visit or hotels, while on vacation (which worked out perfectly for our recent 11 day trip).
Games do work on these systems, but you may need to turn off some high-end effects to keep the speed reasonable. That said, a lot of games seem to be just fine and I tweak them up in graphics features on occasion.
Get a decent laptop and you won't be looking at a desktop, for at least yourself), likely ever again.
Haven’t used a desktop in years.
We have a wireless printer on the wifi and what do you find hard about listening to music??
is that Zombie fighters headquarters?
All new laptops should allow dual monitor use. I do programming and always have my laptop connected to a 28" monitor. It improves productivity to have multiple monitors.
you can configure the external monitor to clone the laptop screen or be configured independently.
Yep, I have switched to a laptop. Have got a desktop running Vista, what am I going to do, try to upgrade it to 7? For how much? (Does anyone know? MS site doesn’t say.) Or build/buy a new one if that one doesn’t meet 7’s requirements? I’m worried this laptop will croak as laptops tend to do (It’s a Toshiba i5 with a 16’’ screen which seems enough), and as the Dell laptops I used at work in fact did.
I'm slaving away on a start-up company with one poor sucker to do the engineering including documentation. That sucker would be me. I just counted 8 binders full of technical documentation written and printed from this laptop. All in the last few months.
Printing isn't a problem.
I'm also watching a SETI talk, Geeky stuff on the laptop, and with the laptop plugged into external speakers, the sound is great.
I find your complaints without merit.
/johnny
I have and use both. Laptops are more convenient, but for the money, desktops have much more power or bang for the buck.
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