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<blockquote data-quote="Victor M" data-source="post: 1073833" data-attributes="member: 96560"><p>A laptop is not a good investment unless you need the mobility. Desktop parts are upgradable. For a laptop, you will be buying a whole new one to do any upgrade. Also you will be paying again for a screen and keyboard which can be used and kept for a long time. So from an economic standpoint laptops are a bad investment - unless you require the mobility aspect. Laptops have over taken the pc market nowadays, people &quot;imagine&quot; the freedom they have with a laptop, - you can move to the sofa, you can stay at the desk, you can project to a TV. When in fact most of the time, people use it at the same desk. When you shift your sitting position, your typing goes haywire. So moving to the sofa to work is not really a good choice. The ads show people working in a park in the great outdoors. But the&nbsp; ad doesn&#039;t mention the distraction that comes from people passing by, and the traffic noise.&nbsp; Can you really concentrate working in these conditions? I might jot down a quick note, but I wouldn&#039;t choose to work outside of the office. If your office offers BYOD, then you might enjoy the convenience of having the same Windows config all the time. Young people do enjoy a Starbucks coffee and surfing at their store. But I myself in am not part of that &quot;in&quot; crowd. And I like privacy. Besides, hackers frequent these coffee places with free WiFi - plenty of targets, and there&#039;s no router firewall to stand in their way.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Victor M, post: 1073833, member: 96560"] A laptop is not a good investment unless you need the mobility. Desktop parts are upgradable. For a laptop, you will be buying a whole new one to do any upgrade. Also you will be paying again for a screen and keyboard which can be used and kept for a long time. So from an economic standpoint laptops are a bad investment - unless you require the mobility aspect. Laptops have over taken the pc market nowadays, people "imagine" the freedom they have with a laptop, - you can move to the sofa, you can stay at the desk, you can project to a TV. When in fact most of the time, people use it at the same desk. When you shift your sitting position, your typing goes haywire. So moving to the sofa to work is not really a good choice. The ads show people working in a park in the great outdoors. But the ad doesn't mention the distraction that comes from people passing by, and the traffic noise. Can you really concentrate working in these conditions? I might jot down a quick note, but I wouldn't choose to work outside of the office. If your office offers BYOD, then you might enjoy the convenience of having the same Windows config all the time. Young people do enjoy a Starbucks coffee and surfing at their store. But I myself in am not part of that "in" crowd. And I like privacy. Besides, hackers frequent these coffee places with free WiFi - plenty of targets, and there's no router firewall to stand in their way. [/QUOTE]

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