I like them both but I can’t stop and think that sometimes I like the way my desktop feels, even if I can’t move it with me or use it from my bed, it consumes more power plus it has a worse keyboard than a notebook.

There are a lot of advantages of using a laptop. Sales figures seem to confirm this, but there are a lot of things that would make me choose my desktop over a laptop if I had to make this choice. Fortunately I don’t but that doesn’t means some people don’t have to.

This is a 20 pounds 20 inch desktop replacement

There is of course a compromise that can be made and that is to buy a desktop replacement, a device somewhere in between a laptop and a desktop. In this post I’ll try and make a list of reasons someone would be better of choosing a desktop replacement laptop over a regular laptop.

Why would you choose a desktop replacement laptop?

Before judging the people walking around with a 10 pounds brick you should consider the reasons they got to make this choice, and I’m not including here motives like “the company gave me no choice, what’s what I got the first day I showed up for work”. So, let’s see the list:

• you need to move and thus can’t rely on a desktop
• you need a lot of horsepower for let’s say CAM/CAD, Photoshop, audio/video conversion
• a high resolution screen is a must for you
• you need a powerful discrete graphics card (I’m not thinking games, but hat will do too)
• you don’t care about battery life too much
• carrying around 10-12 pounds of gear doesn’t bother you

Now I would like to hear your take on this matter. Are you for or against desktop replacement laptops? Leave a comment below about how you feel.

PS. My current favorite desktop replacement is the ASUS G51J with a Core i7 CPU. It’s pretty cheap at 1500 $.

Similar stories you might enjoy

• What interfaces will we use to control computers in the future?
• DIY: how to build your own computer?
• How computers affect our health