Comments on: Curtains for desktops? If not now, when?

The statistics are starting to bear out the anecdotal evidence: Desktops are on their way out.

[gsmiller88]

Notebooks are great and all but I still use my desktop far more than my notebook.

[truthteller33]

Anytime I really need to get something done, I always go for the desktop. Large keyboard that I dont have to stretch my hands across to get past the trackpad. Large enough monitor to actually see what I am working on at large resolutions. Enough CPU power do do video encoding quickly. Enough GPU power to play a real game. 10K hard drive for fast boot up, app loading and video encoding. Unlimited upgrades and add-ons. Not everyone is forced to live in a posh NY or SF studio apartment. There are actually people who live between the coasts. :>

[bytet]

I'm not a member of the double soy nonfat latte crowd. Much as I would of liked something else I could only afford a desk-top box and at half the price of a laptop it will do.

[KevinK]

I work for a large electronics firm, there is a mix of desktop and laptop users. Most newer employees have a laptop with we using with a dock in our cubicles with ethernet, and wireless as a laptop in meetings and in the lab.

I have a 19" screen, conventional keyboard and wireless optical mouse at my desk. The performance of my Dell D620 is quite acceptable for cadcam (Cadence) , engineering and office software. Don't need and don't want a desktop here. Goes with me everywhere as well.

I still use desktops at home but would consider replacing any of them except the media server with a laptop and dock.

[Dango517]

Why would you want a laptop? Half the processoring speed. 1/3 the graphics capabilities. Half the Hard drive space. Twice the problems with overheating. There still is only one reason to buy a Laptop, portability. (The ability to move it from place too place.) Those who buy them must like to wait. Sorry Charlie. Certainly you must know this. You do now.

[Dango517]

At 1/3 third more cost. <<<< A fool and his money.........................

[Sue Geek]

We who have this opinion might be a bit atypical than the average user - I am a programmer and IT professional myself - but for me the high end PCs can never be replaced by any wimpy notebook. There is just too much muscle in the PCs that the smaller notebooks can't, as of yet, duplicate.