Desktop or Laptop Person ?

[The_X]

Since I'm a college student, definitely a laptop person. I'm still chugging along on a 12" Powerbook G4. I carry it between home and work every day and it's perfect. It just fits into my messenger bag during the school year, too. The small screen is never a problem for me, but occasionally I do use my family's small form factor PC with a 20" monitor for heavy Excel work. The G4 processor does get me down sometimes, usually with poorly optimized stuff like Flash and Office 2008.

Even though I have enough money for a fancy new laptop, I can't bring myself to replace the Powerbook. This thing has been with me on trips all through mainland China, Tibet, Mexico, and soon Europe. Just about every paper and project I've done in the last four years have been on it. I think, to say I am attached to my laptop would be an understatement

[Al4x]

Originally Posted by azncookiecutter

No, the P-6860FX has a 2nd hard drive bay.

ah, the dual bay once ive seen are huge

[Sh0eBoX]

Desktop person myself.

My rig is kinda old though, and I game much less than I used to, so haven't had the urge to upgrade it:

Case: NZXT Lexa
Mobo: DFI LanParty UT NF4 SLI-DR eXpert
CPU: AMD Opteron 165 1.8GHz Dual Core @ 2.7GHz (1.45v)
RAM: 2x1GB G.Skill Extreme HZ PC4000
GPU: EVGA 7900GT CO SuperClocked @ 650/1750 MHz (1.5v vmod)
Soundcard: Creative X-Fi Platinum
HDDs: (1) 200GB Maxtor Diamondmax 10 7200RPM 16MB Cache IDE
(1) 500GB Seagate 7200.10 Perpendicular 7200RPM 16MB Cache SATA
(1) 120GB Seagate 7200.9 5400RPM 8MB Cache IDE
Monitor: Dell 2007WFP 20" Widescreen LCD
Speakers: Swans M200 Multimedia Bookshelf Speakers

[velingara]

Desktop right now, considering a laptop for my next purchase-

Currently, home built PC:
Athlon 3200
1.5 GB RAM
X800 Video card
Creative X-Fi, digital out to HD DAC
2x15 gb raptors 10000 RPM, RAID 0
320 gb media drive
24" HP monitor
Vista ultimate

[soozieq]

I have a desktop upstairs with a 19" monitor that I use when I need a bigger screen (photo editing etc) or for burning CDs/DVDs etc, and a laptop just for sheer convenience. I've had desktops since 2000 and laptops since 2004. But I look upon my laptop the same way I do my mobile/cell phone - as extras, whereas my desktop and landline are my absolute staples!

[in_utero]

My main machine is a laptop (15" MacBook Pro). It works well for school (although something smaller, i.e., a 12" PowerBook, would be better), and I love being able to take it anywhere in the house.

Unfortunately, said laptop only has a 160 gb hard drive, which doesn't work well when you have a 4200 song collection in iTunes, so I keep an old HP desktop around for lossless audio files and DVD rips (it's got a 250 gb internal, and I have three external 320 gb hard drives).