Hacienda71
Mancunian in self imposed exile in leafy Cheshire
- Location
- Wilmslow, Cheshire
Netbook 



Which you can pick up for silly money these days ... I saw some in the window of Hebden Bridge's computer shop going for £75!Netbook![]()
My laptop is more powerful than my old desktop PC. I can plug the screen, keyboard and mouse from the desktop into the laptop, and set it up to use the laptop screen as an auxiliary screen to extend the desktop. There isn't a great deal of point in having a desktop PC any more, unless you need a very powerful machine!
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I guess we are all using computers for different things and some do some jobs better than others.
Standing up for the desktop - there are lots of reasons to go for them.
OK you can plug a decent mouse, decent feeling keyboard and eye level screen into a laptop but that slightly defeats the point as you are turning it into a desktop.
The setup and discipline of sitting at a desk is good and often ignored. I can get neck, back and wrist problems so need a good setup. Sitting hunched up over a laptop is no use if you are there for 8 hours.
With a desktop, you can buy a really powerful one really cheap and all the components are easy to chop and change or to upgrade. Disc drives break, monitors go, keyboards break, all a quick and easy job to sort out on a desktop. Expensive on a laptop. Over the years I have also upgraded desktops as things have moved on. More difficult on a laptop.
With my work I deal with lots of emails and write lots of letters each day. I touch type and so find a desktop keyboard and the screen much higher than the keyboard to be essential. Then out of work I just wrote a 9,000 word submission and am about 70,000 words into a novel. Other things like internet browsing are secondary uses.
I have a laptop but it gets used perhaps once a month at most. If I do use it then it is for doing my usual work at a different location and then I find it really frustrating to use and it slows me down to about half the speed of typing or just using the mouse. That may be me as certainly people write novels on laptops and seem to get on OK with it.
I would like to try the painting app on the ipad as that looks really good.