Computer Ownership (Page 5): A desktop is expandable/easily user-modifiable A laptop can be picked up and used off-your-desk..sitting on the sofa, taking a trip, etc. A desktop can...

nadelewitz Loc: Ithaca NY

A desktop is expandable/easily user-modifiable

A laptop can be picked up and used off-your-desk..sitting on the sofa, taking a trip, etc.

A desktop can have as large a display as you want to buy.

You can use a full-size desktop keyboard with a laptop on your desk.

Some laptops have port-replicators/docks that make it very easy to move the computer off your desk and put it back with all connections.

One could go on and on comparing desktops and laptops. What do YOU want?

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

nadelewitz wrote:

A desktop is expandable/easily user-modifiable br ... (show quote)

Interesting response.
The original question was "How many of you use a laptop as your main computer?".

philmurfin Loc: Bakewell, Derbyshire UK

Desktop, I have a tablet but that lives under the bed and is rarely seen!

rmorrison1116 Loc: Near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

Longshadow wrote:

Desktops are typically faster and have more storage.
I use both. Desktop in the office, laptop in the family room and vacations by car.
It depends on what floats your boat.

There was a time when desktop computers were faster but that time is long gone. Today's machines are really only limited by power requirements and battery charge life. The microprocessors used in today's laptops are as powerful as those used in desktop machines. The real difference between them today is the need to run peripherals like external storage, input devices and printers, all things that laptop computers are also capable of doing.
I personally have not owned a desktop computer in many years. I plug my laptop into its dock and it becomes a desktop.

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

jerryc41 wrote:

It would be nice if this forum had the ability to create polls, as I've seen on other sites. Anyway, here's my question. How many of you use a laptop as your main computer? I began with desktops, and although I also have laptops, it's hard for me to take a laptop seriously. It's the same with cameras. Unless it's a big, heavy DSLR, I can't take it seriously. I know I'm wrong on both counts, but since I began with the big stuff, that's what I tend to use.

So - desktop or laptop?

I use a MacPro 15 inch laptop as my only computer. It does everything I want it to do. I have never had a virus since I had it.

Dennis

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

jerryc41 wrote:

It would be nice if this forum had the ability to create polls, as I've seen on other sites. Anyway, here's my question. How many of you use a laptop as your main computer? I began with desktops, and although I also have laptops, it's hard for me to take a laptop seriously. It's the same with cameras. Unless it's a big, heavy DSLR, I can't take it seriously. I know I'm wrong on both counts, but since I began with the big stuff, that's what I tend to use.

So - desktop or laptop?

Both

But I use my desktop for 99% of my pictures and only use the laptop for when I travel. That said, I hardly ever use the Laptop for editing pictures because when I travel I'm usually too tired after a day of shooting.

Stephan G

Desktop for photo related work.

Lap top for e-mail and web surfing.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

rmorrison1116 wrote:

There was a time when desktop computers were faste... (show quote)

Well, my laptop is seven years old, yes, my desktop IS much faster.

shelty Loc: Medford, OR

I have a desktop which I built, and, because of my age, I have no use for a laptop although I have one in the closet.

Dave H2

Indi wrote:

I have an HP Laptop, a Dell Desktop, and my wife has a MacBook Air. The desktop is my go to computer.

Desktop I7 Windows 10 and HP All in One. Plenty of laptops on hand but am a bit long in the tooth so like/need bigger display.

TheShoe Loc: Lacey, WA

steve DeMott wrote:

Definitely Desktop. More powerful, faster and easier to fix. I do use a laptop when I'm away from home,but that's mostly for backup storage.

Same here.

cjc2 Loc: Hellertown PA

I have, and use, both a Desktop and Laptop on a daily basis. If I'm doing PP work, it's definitely on the desktop (with dual 27" 5k screens). Email and other general business type work is most always on the laptop. My desktop, an iMac Pro, is just some much more powerful and built to be fast at PP. The desktop also has tons of storage directly available. Best of luck.

nadelewitz Loc: Ithaca NY

Longshadow wrote:

Interesting response.
The original question was "How many of you use a laptop as your main computer?".

The original poster said "It's hard to take laptops seriously". That's a pretty silly general statement. I pointed out SOME of the pluses of laptops, along with pluses for desktops, as others have been doing.

What's YOUR concern?

the hiker Loc: San Diego

jerryc41 wrote:

It would be nice if this forum had the ability to create polls, as I've seen on other sites. Anyway, here's my question. How many of you use a laptop as your main computer? I began with desktops, and although I also have laptops, it's hard for me to take a laptop seriously. It's the same with cameras. Unless it's a big, heavy DSLR, I can't take it seriously. I know I'm wrong on both counts, but since I began with the big stuff, that's what I tend to use.

So - desktop or laptop?

I use a laptop and have never owned a desktop.

G. Crook Loc: Linden, TX

21” iMac, 15” MacBook Pro. MacBook goes everywhere with me, my primary user.