Desktop or Laptop? - The Eternal Debate

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Which do YOU prefer?

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KateHikes14 dijo:
Desktop is for neets. Literally anyone who is contributing to SoCeItY or is working towards it needs the mobility.
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If you're a contributing member too society, you get both. I'm not playing Kello Kitty Island Adventure on some gay ass laptop, tyvm.
 
Vecr dijo:
Well, sure, you might need a tablet or a phone or something in addition, but an architect or a video editor would do better with a desktop as their main computer.
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Maybe for video editing, but the architect and anyone else who uses 3d software will do just fine with a business laptop with a quadro and a docking station at their desk.
 
obviously both.

i do plenty of work on my laptop, but it feels like i'm playing with a toy compared to my desktop workstation.
 
Laptop since I like to move around a lot even though it's bad for the adapter wiring lol. Since I want to return to video editing, I'm saving up for a desktop, though I haven't decided what I want yet.
 
Laptops have enormously diminishing returns compared to a desktop, in most cases you can't swap out the CPU or GPU for something better because they're welded into the motherboard, and most laptops are severely underpowered and the ones that aren't will thermal throttle because the cooling solution in a laptop has to straddle the line between actual efficiency and meeting stupid perceptions that slimmer is better. In my opinion, if you're going to buy a piece of equipment like a laptop, get one that's future proof that's already spec'd out the ass and just smear liquid metal all up and down the CPU and GPU die, because the generic thermal compound will cure and it will have lasting consequences on your hardware even if you get a new contact solution later down the line, because long-term heat exposure to an electronic is what chain smoking is to a human.
 
laptops are only truly good when they don't have active cooling because that shit is too annoying and it's a moving part that'll eventually fail and might be impossible to replace, something to consider now that computers are longer-term investments. That limits their power upwards, although that being said there are enough x86 chips these days that can do no active cooling and still be quick enough for general use and even the occasional lighter game. Battery on such devices lasts forever too if the design isn't too fucked up.

Otherwise with x86, always Desktops.
 
Laptop for family lan parties, desktop for editing and modeling and more demanding games.
 
Laptops are only good as internet browsing machines or as supplement business computers when you're away from your workstation. Gaming is not feasible either due to not having the specs (or cooling to fully utilized said specs), not having sufficient battery life to actually play games if you're not tethered to a wall, or both.
 
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Laptops are handy for basic things, but you're an idiot if you try to do anything more intensive. They still haven't overcome battery and overheating issues. Desktops all the way for that.
 
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