Definately laptops. You can cram some nice chips, a decent hard drive, and lots of RAM into one...although it'd be best to have a thick, heavy one.

I voted for Desktop computer, due to i can't really imgine my work with a laptop, i used it and really at first it looked cool, but after few hours I started to dislike it.

I voted for desktops, but i think it's a bit skimpy to vote only for one. i have a laptop and several desktops, and i couldn't see myself without either of them. travelling, the laptop is indispensable. but at home, nothing beats a good desktop for performance. it takes me several times as long to do the work i do on the laptop as it does on the desktop. i haven't been able to afford an alienware or similar high-end laptop, so with the under $2,000 laptop, you don't get the same level of performance. I find the desktop more stable too, and easier to use with a nice big 21" monitor. Desktops are also cheaper, can get higher-end pieces for the same price, are easily upgradable, and overall will last you longer than a laptop, heavily used, will.

I guess it just all depends on where u live, i happen to live out in the middle of nowhere, where unlike josh lives in Toyko with ALOT of people to move by. I feel also the your job plays a part, if your a student or a just a weekend warrior. I would just think about what your using it for, just gaming, going to lan partys or bringing it to school or the office. I just use desktops considering that i dont have to worry about high traffic of ppl, and i dont have a job requiring the use of a computer. I dont think we could take a poll without seeing what your using it for.

Personally, I would strongly recommend buying a laptop rather than a desktop. Laptops are more versatile, there general look is cleaner and the best thing is that they are portable. Also some laptops come with Intel Centrino (lets you have a wireless internet connection without the need for extra wires or connection cards) which I have found useful in the past.

However, if you buy a laptop, I strongly recommend you getting a mouse because the roller isn't that effective. Also, since laptops can't be ina fixed position, they can easily be dropped or damaged.

I hope this helps, but I really think you should get a laptop.

It all depends what I'm doing

For most internet activity and such, I'd like a desktop.

But for writing or anything, I nearly need a laptop.

I love the portability of a laptop, and laptop keyboards are about the best thing ever... long as you don't spill something on them.

I don't know... If I could get a good enough laptop (Never gonna happen)
I'd like it better than my desktop since I could use it from bed...

I do sometimes find Desktops generally better though...

I don't think I'm actually gonna vote though XD
I can't decide at all

I mean a Laptop is great and all. portable great if u are the move alot. but in the end desktops just crushes laptop( literiry. lol) lets put it this way. laptop is great for data. and some music on it good **** i have to say. i got most of my programming data on it. but since i im a hardcore overclocker. most of my games and moives n **** are on my desktop. cuz is simply faster... and u cant really costum a laptop... or a Mac -.- lol..

I would have to say Laptop because of all the following:



I also like Laptops because they are portable so you can take them to school, work, etc...

If you really need a high powered machine, of course you want to go with a desktop. You can get much more bang for buck, and you can run more and bigger monitors. If you don't need a computer that goes BAM, but still gets the job done, and if you want to travel with your own computer, then a laptop is for you.

If you can afford both, then you use a laptop for traveling and sync data as needed with the ultimate desktop that you build.

of course, I highly doubt a company will give you both, so if you are allowed to take it out of the office, then get a laptop

In my experience, data on desktops tends for some reason to get backed up more often than on laptops. Doesn't have to be that way, but it is, if only because desktops can stay on the network overnight for unattended backups to the network server.

My desktops have wireless keyboards and mice, something a docking station could have--but, remember, I've never meet a docking station I liked.

The point here is that, whatever technical equality now exists between the two form factors, there remains both dollars-and-cents and practical/personal choice reasons to choose a desktop, laptop, or both--which is really my recommendation.

With prices as low as they are, I can have a laptop for use around the house and occasional trips and a very nice desktop for a combined price of AU$4,000 or less. That's a heck of a deal compared to hardware prices not that long ago.

Buying a real travel notebook means spending AU$3,000 or more, but adding the dock can be fairly pricey. For not a lot more money you can get a desktop machine and use it when you aren't on the go.

If I could only have one computer, though, it would be a notebook, but only because writing is my primary task and I've gotten comfortable doing it in the den rather than in my office. But that is only a David work-style issue and, you know, it's easy for me to say I'd forgo the desktop, which I use for big projects--Web design, music, photo editing, etc.--because I know it won't actually go away.

As much as I like the little notebooks, one thing is certain: No machine with a screen smaller than 15 inches could ever be my only computer.

Although I like laptops, I have to say that a Desktop is much better, Because not only is it cheaper to upgrade (And you dont have to really take apart the whole machine to install it) but just the constomize ability.