Open Thread: Laptop or Desktop? Or a Whole Wardrobe of Computers?

laptopWe love our laptops. The largest contract notebook computer manufacturer in the world has reported the highest ever single month sales for laptops: 2.4 million in March. In the fourth quarter of last year, laptop sales were up over 20% compared to the year earlier.

Laptops make good sense for most of us, whether we work in offices or from home. You could use a desktop system, but that not only keeps you from going Bedouin at the nearest café, it also means you can’t move to another room in your home when you need a change of scenery for stress relief. Though professionals like graphic designers, video editors, or enterprise software developers with heavy-duty computing requirements might want the more affordable power that comes in a desktop system, many web workers will indeed find that laptops offer what they need.

Still, we don’t necessarily want or need to live by laptops alone. You could supplement a powerful and budget-minded desktop with an ultra-portable Internet appliance like the Nokia N800 or the HTC Advantage. Maybe later this year we’ll see an ultra-thin 12″ MacBook Pro, which might be a good mobile complement to a 20″ iMac at home.

What’s your choice for computing: desktop or laptop or both? What would your ideal “computer wardrobe” include?

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