Laptop vs. Desk Top

ottothecow
Thu, 03 Feb 2005 23:11:32 +0000

I am taking both but rght now if I had to make the choice I would choose a desktop. You make think that the laptop is good at taking notes, but think about how much focus typing takes compared to writing. Notes are not internalized when typed anywhere near as well as when they are written out. And if you need to make little insertions or diagrams in your notes, don’t even think about the laptop. Laptops also make great targets for theives while desktops and campus computers dont get stolen so often.

Desktops are cheaper, more powerful, and easier to upgrade. As a college student, cheap and upgradeable are great features and as a math/science/engineering student, you had better believe that you will want some amount or raw power of your own so you dont have to log into a school system to do something.

Laptops do have their advantages and as I said, I am bringing both, but my laptop is a used Thinkpad T23 that I picked up and installed linux on. Its decently powerful and was a good deal, but it just cant serve as my only system. It will however, be great when I need to get away from my dorm or go to the library (thanks to the proliferation of wireless almost everywhere).