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I was having a friendly discussion with someone this morning about PC and Laptops for work/education stuff, he suggested that I could use a chromebook for all this stuff and this would be a good idea and make things easier. I strongly disagreed with this, mainly because I hate laptops, the keyboard and touchpad make me angry and my PC does everything I need. Most things are synced to my phone for the rare times I may want to add something while out and about. So I thought I'd come here and seek other peoples opinions on laptops vs pc your needs? also if you are feeling bored and want to head on over to the survey ive linked and fill in a few questions I can more easily gather data to make into fun graphs, which if the data agrees with me, I can shove it in his face or should I be in the minority I can let him have this win.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I used to use desktop computers both at work and at home (and laptops only when away), but that killed my back โ€“ too much sitting. Since then at home I use only laptop โ€“ I can lay down with that. I do hate touchpads too, so I don't use that โ€“ just a regular mouse. Yes, one can connect a mouse to a laptop. ;-) I would prefer a full keyboard, but the one on laptop is not too bad.

Recently I have bought a powerful PC for gaming, but I only use it remotely, from my laptop (Steam streaming is great).