Lap or Desk?
Let’s face it, notebooks are sexy.
They get the advertising, the cool folk have them
and you can show them off wherever you go.
But… do you need one?
The PC industry is based around getting people to buy things they don’t need. For that matter, the entire western economy is based around the principle, but as in the car industry, the computer world has made an art form of getting users to buy the latest, the most powerful, the… well, you get the idea.
In fact, the PC world now has you buying product that isn’t even ready yet, then they release the fixes after you tell them what’s wrong. Imagine if Ford didn’t put brakes on the new model and waited for customers to tell them before they decided to fit them?
For more info on the pictured laptop, check Apple Reporter
Do you need a notebook? Even one as sexy as the MAC Air? If you travel and need to work as you go, you can justify it. If you only need to access your email while on the move, with an occasional web access, buy a phone. The new ones provide all kinds of goodies and you don’t need a shoulder bag.
Desktops, for an equivalent price, are faster, come with better specifications and will include anything from a 19 inch to 24 inch widescreen monitor. You can expand a desktop PC without having to pay a technician and usually you can simply add in the extras, not replace what you have as you need to with a laptop.
It’s very unusual for a PC technician to have to repair a dropped desktop, but a slight miscalculation as you turn around can send your sexy laptop to the morgue in a blink. They can usually be revived with an expensive injection of parts, but most companies don’t warranty against accident unless you pay a hefty insurance premium up front.
With a desktop, the most common part getting nuked by accident is the keyboard – for $20 you can buy a perfectly good replacement.
A rule to start living buy is, buy what you need, not what they want you to buy!
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