Desktop vs Laptop
Posted by harsh on March 7, 2009
Courtesy to the mass bunk planned on the auspicious occasion of Annual Sports Meet , I am back home earlier than the schedule . (thinking…Dean must have won the gold in 100 m sprint) .
Back from the sucking wi-fi of the college to the marvellous Broadband . Back from the restricted surfing ( May DansGuardian go to hell ) to the unrestricted world wide web . Back from the laptop to my beautiful and powerful Desktop .
Almost after two months of absence , I have again got my hands across my Desktop , thinking why I missed it so much ??
>> Due to some hardware restrictions , I am unable to install XP on my notebook (or for that matter , even Ubuntu) . Its only compatible with Vista (hope a patch is released very soon) . Vista might have better graphics but it consumes a lot of CPU usage , not to forget the irritating UAC and the problems faced during Software Installation (especially games) 
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>> Get your notebook running for few hours continously and it will resemble Goblet of Fire , burning like hell . Whereas my desktop never complaints even if I get it running for consecutive days 
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>> Intel vs AMD Athlon . Haven’t faced any serious difference yet .
>> 1 GB RAM vs 2 GB RAM . Well that advantage is nullified by the presence of Vista . XP + 1 GB RAM = Vista + 2 GB RAM . No serious loss in processing speed .
>> 256 MB ATI Radeon Graphics card in my notebook !! But what for ?Vista won’t allow an uniterrupted execution of Counter Strike or NFS .i
>> Of course I can carry my notebook , plug it in anywhere I want (sneak into administrative block at midnight where bandwidth is fantastic)
>> 250 GB vs 80 GB ??? Yeah I can store a lot of study material in my notebook as compared to Mr. Desktop .
>> Well you can flip your laptop 360 degrees in the air but won’t dare to perform any such experiment with your desktop . 
In short , both the system have their plus points but one thing that is conclusive is that
VISTA SUX.
Reema said
I find typing on laptop cumbersome
Su said
Aye to the last line!
gonna try Win7 when its released?
If not for my pre-historic processor, my comp ‘d hav been a dream to work with, on Ubuntu of course!
however, no qualms about using linux. it rox! 
oorja said
Vista sucks that is for sure.
i love working on a desktop. laptop is handy but as Reema said typing is tough, somehow my curser always seems to jump out of place. and typing the digits also takes more time.
Amit said
Somehow I love my laptop more. Ever since it has arrived, I have hardly touched my desktop. And I have XP! Yay!!
harsh said
vibhu said
haary bro,,,,,,yes i know it hurts when u see other peoples playing nfs and counter strike and u r unable to install it.in ur laptop…but i think the basic problem is vista not laptop…
hoping to get a better operating system….and sure it should be compatible to all laptops…..:)
Ambika said
“Hebrew” is the word for me!!
Btw, love the last pic..
harsh said
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Rashmi said
I feel you need to squeeze urself while working on laptop…desktop is all time favourite
moi said
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sakhi said
males should not keep laptops on the laps for a long time… the heat might kill the sperms and render the used infertile!!
harsh said
Anniyan said
Well Harsh, this is my first time here. Though I hate Harry Potter, I feel a person shouldn’t be judged just by whether he/she likes that book.
Anyway, I can understand your situation. Who doesn’t hate Vista? Ok, fine. I will let you in on a secret. ok? Even the people at Microsoft don’t like Vista. 
Its not that Vista sux. It just that WINDOWSUX. 
harsh said
First of all , welcome to my blog
@Harry Potter … I know many people hate Harry Potter … can’t help it , everyone has their choice
@Vista … In total agreement … I always find Ubuntu a lot better than Windows … but still , in some fields (as in designing)XP is worth using … but Vista hasn’t got any worth… the only advantage with Vista is its graphics (and that too at the cost of a lot of memory ) …
Anniyan said
I agree that XP has some advantages over Ubuntu with respect to development. I am a web developer myself and I can’t help but use XP for the reason that I need to check cross-browser compatibility.