Need to replace your personal computer at home? Before you head to the store to buy a laptop, let me see if I can convince you to buy a desktop instead with these 5 points.
- Screen envy. You don't buy a laptop for it's big screen size. In fact, you usually buy it for the opposite reason (a smaller screen). If you buy a desktop, the standard these days is 27in with 32in being a possibility if you have the desk space / need it for your bad eyes. Sure, you can buy a laptop AND a second screen, but for home and mainly for personal use, it's not worth the hassle.
- Longevity. Laptops unfortunately, are considered a consumable item. They have a short life, and parts within them can only be replaced with the same bits or upgraded slightly. You can improve a laptop's performance if you're inclined, but only slightly. Desktops? Infinite upgrades! More hard drive space, quadruple the amount of RAM, the next generation of video cards, and the highest spec CPU your mainboard can handle. All can be done, easily. And more.
- Aesthetics. Short of making laptops super thin, or super light, or even a different colour, theres only so much you can do to make it "you". For the majority of laptop people that want a bit more expression, you're really confined to stickers. And please, if I see one more Apple sticker on a Windows laptop I'm going to scream! Anyway, desktops are now entering uncharted levels of creative expression with cases that have different colours and designs and formats, and LEDs absolutely freaking everywhere! Can you believe you can get RGB LED memory sticks and power supplies?? It's amazing to me how customised desktop computers have become, and honestly, I'm a little jealous. I want to play too.
- Performance. Compare laptop to desktop specifications, like for like, and the desktop will ALWAYS win. Laptops are designed for maximum performance with minimal power usage whilst desktops are just all about performance for the dollar. The only skewing of this are gaming laptops where they put performance first, and now you know why gaming laptops usually have battery life in the double digit minutes. Sure, it's more than that when you first buy those types of laptops, but after the honeymoon is over ("baby") you're going to want to replace the battery. Or just start using it on power all the time. A laptop's RTX4070 video card and a desktop computer's RTX4070 are chalk and cheese.
- It doesn't move. If the previous 4 reasons don't sway you, this one should. Buying a desktop computer means that it stays in one spot, wherever you want to put it. If you read between the lines, I'm saying that you can walk away from it and give your eyes a rest, your bank balance a nap and most importantly, your mental health a well deserved break. Computers, they complement us, yes, but control us, no! They already run our lives as it is, so let's not let them ruin it. Walk away.
This is the best reason to choose a desktop over a laptop for you home personal computer.
PROFESSIONAL PROPERTY BUYER'S AGENT and SENIOR PROPERTY INVESTMENT CONSULTANT at Investment Institute Group.
8 个月Hey dEx. Great article. Thanks. I rely on my desktop and use my Mac laptop to support. I'm using a Mac mini (Mid 2011), with 0.99935Tb (2/3 used) on macOS High Sierra Version 10.13.6 Running 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5, 16 GB 1333 MHz DDR3, Intel HD Graphics 3000 512 MB. The two slots, with 2 x 1333 MHz DDR3 memory modules at 8Gb in each, are fully used. My laptop is a Macbook Pro is powered by 2 GHz Intel Quad-Core i5, 16GB 3733 MHz, MacOS Ventura 13.0.1 So, dEx, How do I cheaply upgrade as the latest Desktop OS I can access is well superseded.