Desktop user to Notebook user...

Ive had many, many desktops, starting with the old original macintosh, to my 8400. A few months ago, I bought an Inspiron 6000 it was my first laptop. I got that in July, and I also bought a 9300 last week. I absolutely LOVE notebooks! They are so much more easy to use. Right at this moment, Im sitting on my couch, watching the Giants game, and surfin the web. Its awesome! I still have a desktop at home, and at the office, but you cant beat wifi! I love waking up in the morings, and instead of reading the paper, I wake up and surf the web in bed, reading the news, getting the weather, and updating my bank accounts. Notebooks are so much more convienient, and easy to use, that now that I went notebook, I will never go back!

I bought my last desktop in 2001. I will not buy another one. I love my laptop. It allows me to interact more with my family. I am not stuck to just one room. My 9300 has become a complete desktop replacement.

I see notebooks as a more precious electronic the time they started competing with desktops, and desktop just looked like whole bunch of furnitures to me ever since, I dont even plan on buying any desktop ever again, the last three computers I had over the past 4 years were all notebooks, sony vio, toshiba satellite 5200, and this xps gen2, I loved them all

I will never buy another desktop.

I bring my 9300 to LAN parties, and i'm in game before anyone else has theirs booted up, because their fiddling with mice, keyboards and wires.

I'll own only a laptop the rest of my life.

Your poll does not permit an opposing view. I have my first notebook purchase and use it alot but it is not a desktop replacement, no notebook is and for many reasons.
The latest and greatest hits the desktops first, desktops are far more cost effective and since they follow a standardized form factor you have alot of options to upgrade.
While video is much improved on notebooks, desktops still offer the best graphics options and are overall more powerful than notebooks.
Its a bit of a misnomer to call notebooks desktop replacements. Desktops last ALOT longer since their parts arent all integrated and they are far more thermally efficient.
The notebook should be seen more as a supplement or compliment to a desktop system as opposed to a replacement. The portability is nice but to get that option you make sacrifices. For gaming, a desktop is far more comfortable to game on with a normal keyboard and a nice leather, ergonomic chair and huge ass monitor.
I also like knowing that if something should happen to my laptop, all my eggs arent in one basket if it gets stolen or breaks down, I still have my desktop to rely on.a
In a dorm room setting, the DTR class notebooks are a good option but again, I wouldnt do this unless I had a desktop at home.
Just my two cents, dont get me wrong I love my laptop, but it has not nor will not replace my desktop. Sometimes im using them both at the same time.

I'm really tired of your opinions.

These days it's certainly a lot more plausible to have a notebook instead of a desktop, in the last few years notebooks have gone from having basic integrated graphics cards, then budget cards, midrange cards and now they finally get the topend cards. It simply depends on your usage, the primary use for my desktop is gaming, the XPS 2 is excellent at gaming so it easily replaces my desktop machine for me.

This year I built the gaming desktop system in my sig, that machine has been sitting in a box since I packed it three months ago. It is slightly more powerful than my XPS 2 plus it has more storage space but the convenience of my XPS 2 is just too appealing, I can easily have everything I need with me at work, when I visit home etc. The other factor that puts me off the desktop right now is the pathetic resolution of desktop TFT monitors, both my 15.4 and 17 inch laptops have 1920x1200 screens which I find fantastic, I get lots of screenspace, high resolution gaming yet they don't take up massive amounts of room. If I wanted to get a similar resolution for my desktop PC, I would have to buy a whopping 23/24 inch monitor which I'm just not prepared to do.

John

Well I was going to say laptop, but I'm now typing this out on my main desktop - because my bloody wife has stolen my precious!!

**sigh**

Oh, and for the records, my exact opinion is mirrored above (although I am sorely tempted to get the Dell 2405 monitor - just for the 1920 x 1200 resolution. I couldn't really justify it - but after my wife's efforts lately, I might just have to!!)

I don't have a wife, but I have experienced laptop pinching...thankfully I still have my trusty old Inspiron 8600 (great machine), so at the moment friends and family tend to pinch it since it's lighter, smaller, quieter and better batterylife than the XPS 2. I almost got it back this weekend, next time it's definitely coming home to me...although I said that last time...and the time before...

I have been tempted by the 2405, I've seen it for some reasonable prices here recently, 646 pounds instead of over 1000 from Dell...but then I stop to think just how much money that is, and close the browser window

John

Each has its own purpose. I have an HTPC in a Silverstone box (looks like a receiver) next to my TV. AMD 3800 Venice core, 2 gigs Corsair XMS XLPT, X800XL 256, And Pretty much everything else. Also it has a terabyte in hard drives for a movie server. And the harmony 880 remote. Then I have the 9300 loaded that sits on the coffee table next to it and also obviously goes mobile too. Next week it will be going with me to Japan where I will be testing out Battlefield 2 to see if I can play it with my brother back here in the US.

The good thing about the HTPC is next month the Crossfire dual ATI boards will come out and $200 and a quick reload and I will be the latest and greatest and wont have to spend another $2000+ on a new laptop to keep up with the main stream. New video card comes out just buy it and plug it in not read 4000 posts if it will integrate into my old laptop

I think you need to be reading up on forum posts if you think Crossfire is going to be so quick and cheap...

john

I know I need another vid card but the mb will be about $200. The vid card will be around $300 but dont really need it soon as just the one plays very well. They say it will come out before the holidays but I'm not in that great of a hurry.

The XPS2 replaced a fairly good gaming machine (P4 2.8C, 1 GB DDR, Radeon 9700 Pro, dual Raptors in RAID 0, etc). However, the XPS2 is much more powerful and much more convenient. Plus since it has a DVI port, and since I bought the Philips Aurilium 5.1 USB sound card and a USB port replicator, I can use all my desktop peripherals with it. IMO it is a no-compromises system. Plus I don't have to ship my desktop across the country every time I go home for the weekend...

Nobody asked you POOPY MAN

what purpose does an HTPC really serve though? I cant imagine watching porn or browsing such sights where the whole family could watch. Plus what do ya do when the kids wanna surf the net on the tv and you wanna watch the game? What do you use the HTPC for??

Well including the 9300 i just bought there are 5 computers in the house and 1 more in Japan. I also have all of my movies ripped to the hd so i just scrool through a menu not through stacks of disks.