alt Hacker Newsmore interesting is the extent apple convinced people a laptop can replace a desktop or server. mind blowing reality distortion field (as will be proven by some twenty comments telling I'm wrong 3... 2... 1).
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bionsystem • 08/08/2025
I'm a desktop guy, considering the switch to a laptop-only setup, what would I miss ?
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jazzypants • 08/08/2025
I think this would be more interesting if you were to try to prove yourself correct first.
There are extremely few things that I cannot do on my laptop, and I have very little interest in those things. Why should I get a computer that doesn't have a screen? You do realize that, at this point of technological progress, the computer being attached to a keyboard and a screen is the only true distinguishing factor of a laptop, right?
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I dropped $4k on an (Intel) laptop a few years ago. I thought it would blow my old 2012 core i7 out of the water. Editing photos in Lightroom and Photoshop often requires heavy sustained CPU work. Thermals in laptops is just not a solved problem. People who say laptops are fine replacements for desktops probably don't realize how much and how quickly thermals limit heavy multi-core CPU workloads.