Normal PC or Laptop?

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Normal PC or Laptop?

Laptop because I can't sit on chairs. I don't even own chairs.

I use a pc for work because it's just far more reliable

I'll def chose desktop because I don't have good eyesight. A monitor is a lot easier for me to see & easier on my eyes. Plus I only really want to use a computer in my bedroom anyway. The only place I ever traveled to since I moved in with my girlfriend 10 & a half years ago has been to visit my parents but that's only been 1ce or twice a year. My parents have a desktop & laptop I could use while I'm there if I wanted to but I mostly just use my smartphone while I'm there. I have a tablet that I almost never turn on. It's easier & simpler for me to just carry my phone with me when I leave my bedroom to watch TV in the living-room or go out to go shopping or whatever. My desktop is very old(windows 7) & has various issues but I cant afford to buy a new one & I hate the idea of learning a new OS unless I know the system is powerful enough that I could stick to it for a very long time if I wanted or needed to. I could upgrade my processor & ram a little bit but I don't know if it would be worth the cost. If I get a part-time job I would probably make those upgrades after I get a couple paychecks if it seems like the job might work out & then focus on catching up on some other bills a bit before buying a new system.

I use a laptop 90% of the time.

Full desktop PC.

What's your current system spec, if you know? The more specific the better.

Laptop for me. I don't want to have to set up a space for a computer and I like it that I can move the laptop to wherever. I don't do anything that requires a lot of storage, ram, stuff like that...I'm not a gamer type so I don't care about getting the best graphics either. So yeah, laptop ftw.

It's a Dell Studio XPS 435T. I decked out when I got it waaay back then except I got the slowest processor & least amount or ram to save money expecting to upgrade em later.

The processor is Intel Core i7 2.67 GHz. I never got around to upgrading that & I think there's only two other faster processors I could install.

It currently has 11G of ram. It has 6 ram slots & can take 4G in each. I bought it with three 1G sticks & bought two 4G 1s shortly after getting it. If I upgrade the ram I would just put a 4G stick in the empty slot.

The current vid card is AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series. I replaced vid cards a couple times cuz their fans cr@pped out due to dust getting in; made rattling noise. Last time I replaced it I tried to get the best vid card I could. I never used computers for heavy gaming.

The C hardrive is 2TB which currently only has 18.4G free. I installed a 6TB slave for vids that currently has 110G free. I bought a bigger hardrive to replace the C quite a while ago but never got around to installing it. I need to figure out an easy way to copy the entire hardrive. With my previous computer I used a CD that had a program on to copy the hardrive when I restarted my system. I don't remember the program's name & when I googled to find something like that after getting the new hardrive, I couldn't find what I was wanting & got frustrated & quickly gave up.

I'm extremely lazy at home. I currently have a couple days at home by myself & I'm interested in WP instead of doing the chores I really need to do I wasn't very interested in being on here for the last couple weeks thou. I also sometimes really hate doing things that require lots of focus.

PC - most laptops don't have the specs, storage capacity or battery-life to do all that I do in a workday. However, most of the time my PC acts as a server - that lets me use a tablet if I want to work away from my desk.

Desktop / full PC for most things. Certainly for gaming; I'm far more comfortable with a full keyboard and mouse, and although some gaming laptops are powerful, those tend to run hot and have low battery lives. Even in the case of sim racing, where I'm using a wheel and pedals almost all the time anyway, I prefer using a full PC because that way I can keep it upgraded and modified. I like swapping out components and building new computers every now and again. It's nice, and dealing with hardware is less frustrating than dealing with software.

I do have a laptop which I use for writing and for taking on trips, and I have a travel mouse and do occasional light gaming on it, but it's very much secondary.

I have a laptop & an iPad, I use my iPad more, iPad can help with spelling.

Desktop.

I’m a Machead (I worked frontline support for Apple out of Bawlmer (Baltimore) over 20 years ago. I have a trashcan Mac Pro (6th generation Mac Pro, known as the trashcan),a 4th generation cheesegrater (circa 2009) upgraded the firmware on this machine to look like a 5th generation Mac pro, 12th generation iPhone Max (which I’m writing this message), a 3rd gen m1 iPad Pro, and 2 4th gen Apple TV boxes.

Even though I worked there as a contractor employee, there has been a few issues I have with the hardware. First, Apple should have never abandoned Intel CPU’s. Being on SSDI (and soon retirement), I don’t have the money to replace my intel Xeon based Mac Pro hardware and software with the apple silicon based machines. I had issues When Apple went from PowerPC to Intel over 20 years ago (and I went Apple since, according to my brothers, who work for 2 of the major printshops in the world (R.R. Donnelly and York Graphic Services), their major prepress work is still Mac-based. Since I dabble some in music, a lot of those software packages are Mac-based. Finally, after working as a contractor-employee for Naval Research and Development RTD&E Warminster and the Deputy Chief of Staff—Operations and Plans, U.S. Army, Pentagon, I was sick and tired of having to hack the registry in Windows NT 4 every time the Registry would end up being corrupted, (since the registry was stored as a binary file.). MacOS is a lot easier to troubleshoot since software preferences were (and still are) stored as ASCII files in /System/Library. You could use your favorite Text Editor to find and view the offending file. In addition, if the application’s preferences file was so corrupt as to not be worth saving, delete the file and restart the app, which creates a new preferences file setting the app back to it’s default.

iPhone and iPad, as wel as Apple TV however is a whole different story, as the filesystem is completely different, most of the files you create such as numbers keynote or pages data (which can be Microsoft Office Files), get stored in iCloud.

The only issue I’ve had with Apple TV is my ISP—Comcast. (Need I say more?). Depending on the app, i may or may not get buffering. While YouTube may be rock steady, my live TV app(GSE) and IPTV provider, depending on how the IPTV provider routes their signal for each channel is a crapshoot. I put up with it because I’m not about to pay the money Comcast wants for their basic service, no thanks to the station owners frequently jacking up retransmission fees. I’d use a regular tv antenna, EXCEPT, like my bell phone, my apartment complex is using steel-reinforced concrete, so good luck getting a signal, which is one of the reasons I have Wi-Fi. At least I can use Wi-Fi to make and receive calls.

Cool. I looked up that system to get an idea of what all it has inside it. It's an older system, but older systems can still carry some decent performance. Dell and HP systems like that have limited upgradability, but there are a few things you could do to bring some pep back to it. I've run Win10 on similarly aged and spec'd system without any problem. If you don't mind a little input...

I'd suggest getting an SSD as your boot drive for Win and certain programs, and using all of your HDDs for storage and additional program installations. Get rid of the rando RAM stick assortment and get one uniform matched set of desired size and quantity. It's a triple channel system, so 3 identical sticks of 4GB should do nicely. Lastly, maybe upgrade the video card. GPU and SSD are probably the most value-forward upgrades, since you can use them later in a future system. The rest of it, not so much. I've seen decent SATA SSDs from the likes of Crucial or Samsung for around $50, depending on the capacity.

Also, fun fact - if you decide to upgrade to windows 10, your win7 code can be used to activate it, and it will update itself as a win10 code. No need to buy a new copy of Windows.

Yes.
Tablets and such don't really work for me.
The PC is great for running Trainz Railroad Simulator, for playing CDs, and for running 9 hour instrumental collections on YouTube.
The laptop is all solid state in a metal body, no disk, and no CD drive; nice and sturdy for dragging here there and everywhere, such as the laundromat for working on my book, and to creative writers group on Saturdays.

Desktop.

In my experience, cheap laptops tend to die due to overheating. A desktop of similar price range will likely last much longer.