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1) Ok. I'll agree to that. 2) HDTVs suck as displays when you are doing anything other than presenting content. 3) External Hard Drives take up about as m

1) Ok. I'll agree to that. 2) HDTVs suck as displays when you are doing anything other than presenting content. 3) External Hard Drives take up about as much space as internal hard drives, but you have the option of where you would like to put them. How is a desktop with 2 big drives more convenient than a laptop with an SSD and an external drive? 4) Apple's laptop lineup is purely sandy bridge now, and those processors scream. 5) My Desktop is thrashed. Tons of dings and dents from my chair bumping into it on the floor. Also, whenever I need to get to the cabling at the back, I pull the tower forward, and then push it back when I'm done. Sometimes it catches on my desk and I get a huge scrape across the side. 6) My Macbook Air has the exact same keyboard as my iMac. Both work great. I don't do data entry so the numpad isn't necessary. Overall.. this article is a shot from the hip attempt to attract attention ("dammit"). It lacks substance though.

jff 15y ago
I won't deny that it's an attention-grabbing piece with a lot of missed points (I can hook up a monitor to my laptop too!). However, your point #6 is because Apple has started shipping laptop keyboards with their desktops, not because they've started putting good keyboards in their laptops! :) Thinkpad keyboards have always been the best... but mine is currently in a docking station, which combined with the height of my desk makes typing an invitation to injury, so I use an external keyboard. Oh, hey, PC Magazine, I can plug a desktop keyboard into my laptop! You should write an article about it, since it's apparently a new concept to your writers.
cbs 15y ago
>It lacks substance though. It has much more substance than your response, which consists mostly "oh yeah? well for my use case...". Kinda a dumb way to respond to an article that argues "hey, these have got their fair share of uses cases that they'll be sticking around". I use an hdtv as my primary monitor all the time, I know plenty of people who do the same. It all depends on the particular display if it will look decent or not. External drives are kind of a pain in the ass. Except for the drive I move between devices all the time, its just more to get in the way. Ah, so one line of laptops has good hardware. That does not mean the pc moving ahead, portables eventually catching up cycle is dead, or that software's ballooning requirements are ever going to stop ballooning. You treat your tower like shit and are surprised it's beat to hell? Yes, the itty bitty mac keyboards are neat on a desktop, but they're infuriatingly slow for a lot of things you apparently don't need to do. I have numbers to calculate and programs to write, consequently I have an apple bluetooth keyboard-shaped dent in my wall.

jff 15y ago

I won't deny that it's an attention-grabbing piece with a lot of missed points (I can hook up a monitor to my laptop too!). However, your point #6 is because Apple has started shipping laptop keyboards with their desktops, not because they've started putting good keyboards in their laptops! :) Thinkpad keyboards have always been the best... but mine is currently in a docking station, which combined with the height of my desk makes typing an invitation to injury, so I use an external keyboard. Oh, hey, PC Magazine, I can plug a desktop keyboard into my laptop! You should write an article about it, since it's apparently a new concept to your writers.

cbs 15y ago

>It lacks substance though. It has much more substance than your response, which consists mostly "oh yeah? well for my use case...". Kinda a dumb way to respond to an article that argues "hey, these have got their fair share of uses cases that they'll be sticking around". I use an hdtv as my primary monitor all the time, I know plenty of people who do the same. It all depends on the particular display if it will look decent or not. External drives are kind of a pain in the ass. Except for the drive I move between devices all the time, its just more to get in the way. Ah, so one line of laptops has good hardware. That does not mean the pc moving ahead, portables eventually catching up cycle is dead, or that software's ballooning requirements are ever going to stop ballooning. You treat your tower like shit and are surprised it's beat to hell? Yes, the itty bitty mac keyboards are neat on a desktop, but they're infuriatingly slow for a lot of things you apparently don't need to do. I have numbers to calculate and programs to write, consequently I have an apple bluetooth keyboard-shaped dent in my wall.