February 13, 2004

Desktop vs. laptop: Which do you really need?

My spin: Anchor Desk's David Coursey helps answer the age old question, of do we need a desktop or laptop.

As laptop computers get more powerful there's less and less need of a desktop computer. All you need is a large screen for the most part. Of course in a few rare cases you might want to do some internal expansion, but for most of us, a notebook computer screen would be fine.

As David points out though, THE POINT HERE is that, whatever technical equality now exists between the two form factors, there remains both dollars-and-cents and practical/personal choice reasons to choose a desktop, laptop, or both--which is really my recommendation.

With prices as low as they are, I can have a laptop for use around the house and occasional trips and a very nice desktop for a combined price of $2,000 or less. That's a heck of a deal compared to hardware prices not that long ago.

The optimal thing is to have a travel notebook, real small and a full fledge desktop computer.

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