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Has wireless killed your love for desktops?
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ever since i got my ibook & ap extreme about a year ago i can't ever see myself getting a desktop again. being able to go anywhere in the apartment with my laptop is great. i dont even get excited about new imacs & powermacs anymore. need to upgrade to a pb 15" though. anyone else feel the same way??
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Faster drives, expandability, more RAM slots, better video card options, the ergonomics of the desk and chair my tower is in all make a tower more practical and preferable for many uses.
Now if you ask me how often I use a desktop for web and email then I have to admit it is virtually never.
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Try running GarageBand on it, and you'll quickly discover many reasons to have a desktop 
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GB works fine on my PB17.  I've always been a laptop person at home, preferring the mobility. But I have had thoughts of getting a desktop for pure power, while keeping the PB.
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I have always thought that Apple would be the best to do this:
Build a desktop Mac with a "module" hard drive which works kind of like a RAID. Then, when you want to be portable, you could take the drive from from your desktop and slide it into your PowerBook. You wouldn't have to worry about synchronizing data. It would be automatic.
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Originally posted by David Hagan:
I have always thought that Apple would be the best to do this:
Build a desktop Mac with a "module" hard drive which works kind of like a RAID. Then, when you want to be portable, you could take the drive from from your desktop and slide it into your PowerBook. You wouldn't have to worry about synchronizing data. It would be automatic.
That wouldn't solve the problem. Laptop hard drives are smaller, hold less information and are more expensive. Desktops don't need to save space (minus the mini and apparently the iMac) so they can use big, loud, power hungry, faster, 3.5 drives and nobody will really get upset about it.
That's why a desktop would prefer a 3.5 drive and a laptop would prefer a smaller drive.
Apples and oranges...
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i'll probably always have a desktop for my main machine, and wireless capabilities aren't really a deciding factor. expandability, RAM, drive space/speeds, etc., are.
like Obvious said, surfing and email is the main thing done on laptops.
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