Running at full load without noise is something that is easy to achieve on a desktop if you want it, and almost impossible on notebooks with any kind of compara

Running at full load without noise is something that is easy to achieve on a desktop if you want it, and almost impossible on notebooks with any kind of comparable processing power. The coolers and fans you can put into a desktop are just so much larger and quieter than anything that can fit into a notebook. If you care about fan noise and regularly put high load on your computer, a desktop provides much better options here. But I was also surprised just how much processing power you can put into a modern notebook, my Ryzen 8 core CPU in my notebook is not that much slower than the one in my desktop (which is a bit older than the notebook). But the desktop is silent at 100% CPU load, the notebook isn't. For me the biggest issue though is monitors, I like to have two large screens. A single screen always feels somewhat limiting to me.