Does everyone have a laptop these days?

Mr.Lizard · 17-03-2009 01:12PM #1

I'm sitting in bed here drinking a beer surfing the net and watching some divx and I can hardly remember a time when using a computer primarily consisted of sitting at a desk facing a big computer made up of an array of boxes and peripherals.

Hooray for Laptops. They really are a marvelous invention. If it wasn't already St. Patricks Day I'd propose that today be annual laptop day.

connundrum · 17-03-2009 01:15PM

I still have my first laptop. Don't know what I'm gonna do withg it eventually i.e. it doesn't work at all but I'm afraid to throw it out in case there's something cool on it that I forgot about.

7 years and counting...

Ciaran500 · 17-03-2009 01:16PM

Don't have a laptop and have no interest at all in getting one

K4t · 17-03-2009 01:17PM

Even worse for me, our desk top is in the living room (see through windows too), have to wait up until 1am to have a ****.

I'll definitely be investing in a laptop for college next year. What type would you recommend?

Mycroft H · 17-03-2009 01:17PM

I dont use a laptop. There not powerful enough for photoediting and have crappy inbuilt graphics.

Apart from that there alrite.

17-03-2009 01:20PM

i've had one over a year now.. kinda miss the old desktop tho.

Busi_Girl08 · 17-03-2009 01:23PM

Got mine last November. Love it!

Youtube, Boards, Final Gear, IMDb, watching DVDs in my room, can't beat it!!

Red Alert · 17-03-2009 01:24PM

I've a desktop and a macbook pro - I use the macbook pro pretty much 95% of the time. I picked up an Acer One off eBay because I found the MBP's a bit too big to bring some places.

Mycroft H · 17-03-2009 01:25PM

Red Alert wrote: »

I've a desktop and a macbook pro - I use the macbook pro pretty much 95% of the time. I picked up an Acer One off eBay because I found the MBP's a bit too big to bring some places.

If i ever got a laptop, it will be a mac, they are sooo cool.

qwertz · 17-03-2009 01:26PM

Yes, every single human being on this wonderful planet of ours has a laptop. :rolleyes:

omb0wyn5ehpij9 · 17-03-2009 01:26PM

I have a laptop and a desktop. Only ever use the laptop when i'm in bed, the desktop I have is much better than the laptop!

Mr.Lizard · 17-03-2009 01:27PM

qwertz wrote: »

Yes, every single human being on this wonderful planet of ours has a laptop. :rolleyes:

everyone reading this.

Gary ITR · 17-03-2009 01:28PM

Hmmm 2 laptops, a phone with wireless reception and a desktop. Just in case 3 break down the same day I can still access pRon

Captain Chaos · 17-03-2009 01:31PM

landyman wrote: »

I dont use a laptop. There not powerful enough for photoediting and have crappy inbuilt graphics.

You must not look around for the good ones then. The lappy I'm using here has a Core 2 duo 2.4ghz, 4gb DDR2 RAM and a GeForce 8800m GT 256mb. Not top end but powerful enough me thinks.

qwertz · 17-03-2009 01:35PM

Captain Chaos wrote: »

You must not look around for the good ones then. The lappy I'm using here has a Core 2 duo 2.4ghz, 4gb DDR2 RAM and a GeForce 8800m GT 256mb. Not top end but powerful enough me thinks.

They even have a couple of models for that very purpose.

omb0wyn5ehpij9 · 17-03-2009 01:36PM

qwertz wrote: »

Yes, every single human being on this wonderful planet of ours has a laptop. :rolleyes:

Somebody got out of the wrong side of bed this morning......

K4t · 17-03-2009 01:36PM

landyman wrote: »

I dont use a laptop. There not powerful enough for photoediting and have crappy inbuilt graphics.

But they do have spell check :pac:

Shryke · 17-03-2009 01:37PM

I had a great laptop but I broke it the other night! I'm really upset about it. I've ordered a Samsung NC10 Netbook to replace the loss though. And I'm in the process of building a desktop. I've the first couple of bits ordered but it's going to be a while before I have everything together. I miss having a desktop!

cnocbui · 17-03-2009 01:39PM

landyman wrote: »

I dont use a laptop. There not powerful enough for photoediting and have crappy inbuilt graphics.

Apart from that there alrite.

I have a new 13" Macbook. it only has a 2ghz core 2 duo and a NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics processor with 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM, but it is fine for photo editing.

Photo editing is not particularly challenging a task anyway, try ray tracing/rendering or converting video formats. The Macbook does those just fine as well.

Dave! · 17-03-2009 01:41PM

K4t wrote: »

Even worse for me, our desk top is in the living room (see through windows too), have to wait up until 1am to have a ****.

Those are the worst kind of windows...

I've got an old Mac iBook with a dodgey keyboard, so I use that all the time to watch DVDs and the likes

I've got an Acer One that I use for college stuff, programming, etc. It's a slow piece of sh*t though.

qwertz · 17-03-2009 01:42PM

Bryn wrote: »

Somebody got out of the wrong side of bed this morning......

No, I am in a very good mood! The sun is out, the sky is blue, the roads are empty because most people are in the citycentre.

K4t · 17-03-2009 01:43PM

Dave! wrote: »

Those are the worst kind of windows...

I know

I should have mentioned the see through doors also

Mr.Lizard · 17-03-2009 01:45PM

Dave! wrote: »

Those are the worst kind of windows...

Agreed. That's why I got the builders to put tinted glass in my house.

Mycroft H · 17-03-2009 03:07PM

Captain Chaos wrote: »

You must not look around for the good ones then. The lappy I'm using here has a Core 2 duo 2.4ghz, 4gb DDR2 RAM and a GeForce 8800m GT 256mb. Not top end but powerful enough me thinks.

Yes but there twice as expensive as equivilent desktops, and as a student i cant afford a top range laptop yet

Shryke · 17-03-2009 03:12PM

Also a Desktop PC is much more upgradable.

thelordofcheese · 17-03-2009 03:15PM

Personally, i don't care much for laptops. Too little power for the asking price. If you want a mobile Interbutts/email/video player one of the Asus EEE Pc's would be a good choice, otherwise laptops are a waste of time and money.

Dord · 17-03-2009 03:16PM

I'm on my second laptop, its a Lenovo T400. :cool:

If I had more space I'd have a desktop also. But I don't so a laptop suits me fine. It's fast and can do everything I need including running some powerful audio programs.

BaconZombie · 17-03-2009 03:19PM

If you are buying a cheap laptop, don't bitch that it it is under spec'd and does not run new game or software.

landyman wrote: »

Yes but there twice as expensive as equivilent desktops, and as a student i cant afford a top range laptop yet

qz · 17-03-2009 03:20PM

I have this 13.5" Toshiba U300 for college and general arsing about on (on it right now)

And I've just inherited this 17" Toshiba Qosmio G10 with an incredibly bright TFT screen for movies/PS2.

I love my laptops

helios12 · 17-03-2009 03:21PM

connundrum wrote: »

I still have my first laptop. Don't know what I'm gonna do withg it eventually i.e. it doesn't work at all but I'm afraid to throw it out in case there's something cool on it that I forgot about.

7 years and counting...

why not pull out the hdd and see? Or if its just a case of windows death then throw Linux on it;)

m83 · 17-03-2009 03:25PM

landyman wrote: »

I dont use a laptop. There not powerful enough for photoediting and have crappy inbuilt graphics.

Apart from that there alrite.

Speak for yourself, I'm pretty sure my XPS M1710 wipes the floor with a lot of desktops, and it's two years old now.

Does everyone have a laptop these days?

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