Laptops are Better Than Desktop Computers

PS. I am using one of your links for rebutting (http://www.theverge.com...) 1. Your "Gaming" laptop can hardly game anything: http://www.theverge.com...... While playing any modern game, on medium or low settings, the Nvidia 640M LE (Which is two big step down from the normal 640) can hardly keep the frame rate at a playable pace. For just $617, you can get this great rig from bestbuy: http://goo.gl...... It comes with a mouse and keyboard, and if you don't want to by a monitor, gaming on family TV is the way to go! It can play any modern game on higher settings too. (I will say that the graphics card will be out-dated soon, but upgrading graphics cards are easy with desktops) "can hardly keep the fps at a playable pace" Here is a quote from theverge: "In Battlefield 3 on MEDIUM settings at the Y480's native 1366 x 768 resolution, the game's frame-per-second rate hovered around the HIGH 30s, dipping as low as the HIGH 20s during some of the more frenetic firefights. Toning some of the quality settings down a bit further will get you a perpetually smooth experience, which would of course be ideal for a first person shooter. Alas, getting The Witcher 2 to a smooth 30 frames per second meant turning all of the various settings down to their lowest levels, and then dialing the resolution down to 1024 x 768. SMOOTH, but not an especially grandiose experience. Just Cause 2 didn't fare much better: 32 frames per second at a resolution of 1024 x 768, and down to an average of about 27 frames per second when the game runs at the machine's native 1366 x 768 resolution. " Note how I put some on uppercase. Battlefield did not run at a unplayable pace on medium. high 20s to high 30s is not unplayable, but rather smooth. 20-30 fps is usually the fps of films. 2. Buying batteries can still be a choir, and unnecessary if one only bought a desktop. Hard drive fail a lot more often in laptops than desktops, mainly because drives are one of the few moving parts of a computer. Most are spinning at 1200RPS, and just accelerating it to quickly could harm the drive. Most desktops have strong aluminum casing, so if I drop my desktop (which won't happen because it never needs to be moved) I would be more concerned about my toes than a dent in the case. Well, the only time you will need to move a desktop is when you move. So the falling one is a tie laptops=high risk, less damage, desktops=low risk, not much damage to itself, but much damage to the floor and perhaps your toes. Batteries: buying batteries is unnecessary for desktops, but buying mouse, keyboard and a monitor is unnecessary for laptops. (unless water got into the original keyboard/mouse) 3. I was talking about internal hard ware; USBs are external, so desktops and laptops are kind-of tied there (with the exception that you must continuously plug, and unplug devices with laptops). But the ability to plug and unplug makes it easier to transfer the hardware to another computer. 4. I was referring to bang per buck. Even after the purchase of a monitor desktops win (which you might only have to do once, I am on my third desktop and I still on my original dual monitors). And computer monitors are better than laptop monitors (brighter, bigger, and sharper). This depends on the monitor you buy. If you buy a tv for a monitor then it is going to be more expensive than laptops, but brighter, better and sharper. However, if you buy a 10 year old monitor then it is going to be cheap but not so good. 5. Desktops have the capability of producing 7.1 surround sound. All it needs is a $50 sound card and some speakers. I know those speakers are very expensive, but I am trying to say that desktops have the option of that, while laptops do not. Some speakers use the USB or the headphone plug, which are usually on laptops. So laptops DO have an option of that. PS. the verge said that: "A pair of JBL speakers sit on opposite ends of the laptop's base, pumping out sound that's loud and fairly rich. There's no subwoofer, so don't expect much in the way of bass, but I was pleasantly surprised by the audio the Y480 produced. Things start to sound a little distorted at the very highest volume levels, but the overall audio quality is solid" Then they said that the intelligent mode was not so good, and that is a software problem. Plus, usually movies and stuff do not need the highest volume, unless the computer is far away from you eg when you are projecting something