Comments on: 10 Reasons Why You Should Own A Laptop

By: alexander the great

alexander the great — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:12:34 +0000

i disagree, laptops aren’t always better. while i own both a laptop and a desktop, i use my desktop over my laptop every time. the simple fact is, desktops are easier to upgrade and maintain then your laptop. like you said most things pop out of a laptop. but only a few things, the ram, and hard drive. often you can’t upgrade parts of your laptop like the graphics card, there often are no PCI card slots and if there are, the average user wouldn’t know how to do it himself. desk tops are easier to clean out…i don’t know about you guys but, i take EVERYTHING apart and clean the dust out of it once a year or so, that means, taking apart the PSU, taking off the heat sink….taking out ever component. i have done this with laptops, and it is a headache. from my experience desktops are more powerful, excepting more ram card, better processors, and much larger hard drive capacities.

i’m not saying laptops are bad, i’m just saying, that at least for me, they arn’t better then desktops, i’d say that they are on an equal playing field because when i go to a customer’s house to work on there computer, its better to bring my laptop then my desktop to service there computer.

By: Honski

Honski — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 20:59:33 +0000

“I know some stuff about pc buildng, and although I’ve never actually built a pc, I’ve read a lot about it and it’s actually pretty simple …….”
This is the best joke I’ve read for a long time.

By: Janie

Janie — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:48:55 +0000

Laptops can still acess a desktop computer on a trip if you have remote desktop connection enabled. I think it’s one of the best features of windows.

By: Clark

Clark — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:37:01 +0000

Janie makes a good point although just becasue more laptops are being made, doesn’t mean actual people aer building them. I think mostly robots do the job. I still prefer desktops over laptops because they tend to preform better, are cheaper to build, and you have space to add more computer components in the future such as a few extra hard drives if your extravagant enough(actually it’s just a really impractical, but possible example). I still think it’s possble to buld a laptop yourself. It would jsut be really difficult because of all the small parts. Building a desktop is way simple, so I’m with desktops.

By: Drew

Drew — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:59:57 +0000

There are so many ridiculously stupid points in that reply, that I don’t even know where to start first…

By: Janie

Janie — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 09:44:52 +0000

Why do you say laptops are impossible to build yourself? Obviously millions of people do it a day because laptops are beginng to outsell desktop computers and if they can do it, you can do it. You just need to be able-bodied, able to read, not retarded, and know what your doing. I know some stuff about pc buildng, and although I’ve never actually built a pc, I’ve read a lot about it and it’s actually pretty simple as long as you know what you want for your computer. The assembling is really simple(desktop computers at least). The only thing that still bohters me are the expensses because I have no idea what they’re going to be because I’ve never actually been really serious about building a pc.

By: Preetam

Preetam — Thu, 07 May 2009 12:05:52 +0000

Laptops don’t offer one thing for us people:-

Gaming!

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By: Craciun Dan

Craciun Dan — Fri, 01 May 2009 11:43:59 +0000

I think the portable and space-saver reasons are really good points to buy a laptop. But regarding the easier working factor, I always found laptops to be a pain in the ass. For me it’s twice as slow, not to mention the touchpad (if you don’t have a pad and mouse) is ten times harder to manoeuvre. Of course, maybe that’s because I was only used with a desktop for so many years. But it’s true, you can’t take your desktop in a trip, which is the greatest advantage of a laptop in my opinion.

By: Dean Pugh

Dean Pugh — Fri, 01 May 2009 11:05:03 +0000

I agree that you should own a laptop, but I think everyone seems to see this as a “why a laptop should replace your desktop”, which it isn’t, although some points do seem to suggest that.

I use my laptop for simple computing ie surfing, word processing and low end programming. It’s generally a backup for my main machine. My laptop has a 12.5″ screen, so it fits in my bag, and allows me to leave the office.

A laptop should only replace your computer if you only do basic computing, like word processing and surfing and maybe a few games, otherwise I would suggest a laptop as a second computer, and a Desktop as your main one.