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Do you own a laptop, a desktop, or both?

Laptop, desktop, or both?

  • Laptop

    Votes: 29 29.0%

  • Desktop

    Votes: 6 6.0%

  • Both

    Votes: 65 65.0%
  • Total voters
    100
Hello,

I have the following Macs and others:

2010 Mac Pro 6-core - mostly used only for handbrake, dvd encoding, ripping, and burning multiple dvds simultaneously, and everyday stuff, such as emailing, word processing, some retro gaming.

PowerBook G4 1.67 Hi-Res - used as my primary everyday system taking care of my emailing, web surfing, youtube.. some light to moderate work making DVDs, etc.. I have installed efficient codecs for this G4 to accept 240-720p video, 1080p also plays, but drops frams significantly. Has Leopard and Tiger on it - mint like also.

PowerBook G4 Pismo - An evolutionary model, one of the most beloved of the Apple laptops and even today is fetching a premium. It originally was a G3 500, but I got the G4 550 chip and now its a genuine G4. Mainly used to take care of my OS 9 nostalgia, but also used for everyday stuff + it runs Tiger nicely.

Power Mac G5 Quad - This will replace my Mac Pro in terms of everyday stuff, such as emailing, youtube, internet, and also some light to moderate work. It came with Leopard, but also have the original install discs for Tiger and classic.

Finally, Gateway P-6860fx gaming laptop - Windows 7 and hardly use.
 
Just a laptop, and i like it that way. I am a bit of a fidget and like that i can use my laptop in the livingroom, bedroom etc.
 
Three,

Laptop = MacBook CoreDuo running Snow Leopard
Desktop = Custom built running Win7
Netbook = Samsung N210 running WinXP
 
Was 2, now down to 1

I was using a 2006 Core Duo MBP 2.16 GHz and a 20" aluminum iMac 2.4 GHz, but I decided that I wanted everything on one unit. Since a used Early 2008 MBP that I could afford at the time was close enough in speed to the iMac, I sold the other two computers. Recently, I rebuilt a late 2008 MBP 2.53 GHz and plan to give my mother my Early 2008 MBP to help fend off malware attacks from all the web links that she clicks on (oh good grief!) with her PC. I would like to one day get a Mac Mini to use as a file server, media server, etc., but it won't be a primary computer like I was using the iMac for.
 
Both. Mac Pro for 8 cores, multiple internal drives, 12 GB of RAM (soon to be bumped up even more). I work with big photoshop files.

Laptop for portability. And document creation. When I've spent 4 hours sitting in the "bat cave" (my office was originally designed as a storage locker) when I'm just writing words I like to get myself near a window (inside or outside).

Laptops are not, strictly speaking, "more delicate". But they do suffer a lot more abuse than a desktop.

If you need a computer for what you do, then you need system. There are at least 2 backup programs (that I know of - probably more) that create bootable backups. So, you backup to a slow cheap USB external HDD nightly. The day your kid sister spills the cherry slushly into your computer (laptop or desktop) you connect your backup HDD into the spare Mac and boot off of the external disk. It may not be fully functional (for example I wouldn't be able to edit my photo files on my laptop easily - too little RAM) but all of your documents, emails, etc are there and accessible.

You could just have an old Mac Mini tucked away in closet as a back up system.
 
GGJstudios said:
What do you mean "delicate"? They're just as durable as a desktop. If properly cared for, a notebook can serve for many years, both as a portable and as a desktop solution. I've used nothing but notebooks for over 10 years and have been very satisfied by how they perform and last.
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x2, I would even argue that when dropped from the same height, the laptop is the more likely of the two to survive.
 
I have both laptops and desktops, a 12" PowerBook G4, 15" matte MacBook Pro, 17" Intel iMac (From when they had matte screens) and a Mac Pro.
 
Both--17" SB MBP, 27" i7 iMac--plus a mini server/HTPC. Prior to my new SB MBP, my desktop was always the obvious choice due to being much faster, but this quad SB i7 with 8GB RAM is enough of a beast (benchmarks faster than my i7 iMac) that's no longer the case. I tend to mostly use the MBP, while my wife vastly prefers desktops and almost exclusively uses the iMac.

That said, I actually MUCH prefer the larger screen and full-sized keyboard (I'm a numeric keypad junkie) of my desktop machine... but the couch is just so much more comfortable that I'm usually drawn to it and end up using my laptop anyway, unless I'm doing "real" work. At least now I don't feel cramped by the 2GB RAM in the 1st gen MBP I just replaced--that probably made more of a difference than the 3x increase in CPU speed.

The desktop is also the only choice for anything color-critical, on account of the IPS display.
 
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