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I've spent a lot of my life in front of computers and yes desktops and laptops have their pros and cons.
One of the nice things with laptops is that on a sunny day you can sit in the shade outside and continue to "work".
There is an annoyance with laptops however that you often end up with them on your laps and when the hottest part of the laptop is perched betwixt your legs.
Another sad fact with laptops is bang-for-buck you don't get the same capabilities. If you're dealing with shifting bytes between RAM and graphics cards or RAM and disk, or disk and graphics card, then you need a very fast bus, which sadly laptops often lack. Although, in my opinion they don't lack to any real noticeable extent.
There's a middle ground too and something that I've thought about investing in quite a bit, and that's PC's that contain very minimal components, mostly containing an Atom Processor (very energy efficient), <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASUS_EeeBox_PC">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASUS_EeeBox_PC</a><!-- m -->.
If you're going to spend a lot of time in front of a computer, and it happens to be a laptop, it might be worth investing in a brand that keeps to the same format so that if you get a docking station (worth doing) then it might stand a chance of fitting the next model in years to come. If all you do is surf the web and write the occasional letter, then give a free operating system (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_%28operating_system%29">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_%28 ... _system%29</a><!-- m -->) a go which might meet all your needs and could save some money for something nice like a TOLBS cream or razor. Dell still offer Ubuntu on their laptops as far as I know, but that might have changed, but could be worth a look.
One of the nice things with laptops is that on a sunny day you can sit in the shade outside and continue to "work".
There is an annoyance with laptops however that you often end up with them on your laps and when the hottest part of the laptop is perched betwixt your legs.
Another sad fact with laptops is bang-for-buck you don't get the same capabilities. If you're dealing with shifting bytes between RAM and graphics cards or RAM and disk, or disk and graphics card, then you need a very fast bus, which sadly laptops often lack. Although, in my opinion they don't lack to any real noticeable extent.
There's a middle ground too and something that I've thought about investing in quite a bit, and that's PC's that contain very minimal components, mostly containing an Atom Processor (very energy efficient), <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASUS_EeeBox_PC">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASUS_EeeBox_PC</a><!-- m -->.
If you're going to spend a lot of time in front of a computer, and it happens to be a laptop, it might be worth investing in a brand that keeps to the same format so that if you get a docking station (worth doing) then it might stand a chance of fitting the next model in years to come. If all you do is surf the web and write the occasional letter, then give a free operating system (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_%28operating_system%29">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_%28 ... _system%29</a><!-- m -->) a go which might meet all your needs and could save some money for something nice like a TOLBS cream or razor. Dell still offer Ubuntu on their laptops as far as I know, but that might have changed, but could be worth a look.
