| Clearly desktops do have some possibly significant advantages - considerably more reliable, much bigger displays, lower cost. However, it is hard to beat the portability of a laptop.
Another advantage is that now that my son has a laptop, when he comes home for breaks, he no longer sequesters himself in the basement where my desktop system is set up. Instead he sits in the family room and links to his friends on his laptop via our WiFi network at home. I still can't talk with him because he is invariably conversing with at least three other people on-line, but at least I can see him. |