Posted on 06/29/2011 7:01:55 PM PDT by decimon
If anyone has given up the desktop PC for a laptop PC then can you say how that's working out?
TIA
I used to be a desktop user. Switched to laptop a few years ago and never looked back. It used to be that desktops were so much more powerful than laptops that the downgrade was not worth it. The new laptops - I use one with the Intel i5 processor - and the HD screens are just spectacular, imo.
I can see needing a desktop for gaming or other processor / RAM intensive activities (desktop publishing, graphical arts etc...) but for average every day use (documents, email, internet, videos etc..) a laptop is fine.
As an added bonus, you can get a wireless router so you can post to FR from your couch (As I am doing right now! :) )
For the most part; I’m using an iPad as a desktop/laptop replacement. Does that count?
yes. Desktop drives will always be more robust. But if you pair your laptop with an SSD with external storage it won’t be an issue. If I was buying a new system I would get an SSD that is big enough for the OS, programs and swapfile, and then keep all other data on the external.
Works great for me. I have used a laptop as a desktop replacement for the past year and a half.
I use a laptop. I do not have a docking station unlike some others who have already responded. I have a heat shield which serves as a platform to place the laptop. It is very convenient, especially when I am on my bed leaning back.
I've noticed that even professional reviewers have been conceding that virtually any new PC will do all that most people do and without much noticeable difference. What we are doing right now, for instance.
Have a ten year old desk top with big LCD that I only keep around for files I want to keep (just gathering dust). We have three lap tops and I would never go back to a desk top.
Replaced my blown desktop with my secretary’s old lappy, which is a great HP with 250 gig HD (still newer than my old desktop). Have my USB turntable hooked up. 2 external HDs total 2.25 TB. Using Cool Edit 2000 to record my albums and recalcitrant WMA files from my CD’s. Sound through cheap earphones is great (I’m pretty deaf from 20 years in a millwork plant). Bought a $12 USB keyboard. Have a 22” flatscreen monitor available, but the laptop screen is plenty big for what I do. I haven’t had any trouble with this setup.
I have a desktop and a work laptop at the office.
If you are gonna throw it out I’m gonna see if it works.Have 3 dell desk tops I got from the trash. Minor repairs. The 42 inch monitor was my main TV but it developed a line that was annoying for TV but fine for puter work. Dell Plasma :)
Even have a Dell Inspiron in the car for my GPS. Delorme Mapping software with USB transponder. Don’t have to squint to see a 4 inch display.
And windshields will shatter if you throw hot water on them when they are covered with ice....
Those things used to be true. Now, however, they are not, with modern equipment. I use boiling water to clear my windshield in the winter, and have 5 operating laptops here, and have lost more motherboards than laptops, in the last 7 years. Zero HDs. The HD here has been moved into 3 different laptops, when the laptop got dead.
/johnny
My printer is USB so I don’t think it would be a problem.
I have 3 desktop computers...I have 2 laptops...never turn my desktop computers on...if you purchase a large enough laptop...you’ll never use your desktop again. A good laptop will set you free...of course using the wireless feature....
No sir....It is my command and control facility :)
I probably will eventually, but right now, my desktop is still my primary computer.
I’ve been itching to build a new desktop as I had been doing since it first became possible in 1986 and Windows 1.0, which I still have somewhere, but haven’t done it in several years, and I’m no gamer, but love to research and find the best components on the market for the best price, and put them together with all the frustrations that go along with it.
Yeah, that's why I'm soliciting opinions based on experience. At some point I'll give up the desktop but I'm not sure if this is the time.
The windows upgrade vista home premium to 7 is around $100.00. Well worth it although the upgrade does take some time.
I gave up a desktop almost 15 years ago and love it.
Thing is, I bought a house and AT&T is having problems installing landline and Internet for over a month now. So I am doing iPad only now for 5 weeks and counting.
Disk access is MUCH slower. Otherwise, it is tolerable with an external keyboard, mouse and large monitor.
Well, for me I lack a lot of technical knowhow, for sound my issue is that it isn’t loud enough.
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