How to Decide Between a Laptop & a Desktop

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Chris Bryce, from SuperService.com. We're going to talk about how to choose between a laptop and a desktop. There's a couple of different factors to determining and choosing a laptop or a desktop. The main one for most people is price. Now as history says, laptops are generally more expensive than a desktop. While desktops may start at $249 or maybe even $299, laptops tend to start around $399, maybe even $499 for a comparable system. The next thing to look at is where we're going to be using the system. If you're going to be in an environment where you don't really need portability, a desktop might be the right answer for you. But if you need to be able to take the system with you, lugging a desktop around isn't probably the best bet, so you'd want to go with a laptop. This would be if you were a business person and you were doing traveling on trips, or if you were a college student and you need to be able to take your laptop with you to different classes. With a desktop space can be a factor as well. If you don't have a lot of room on your table or desk or wherever you're putting the system, you may want to go with a laptop just to save on space. They also do make smaller desktops with smaller footprints, but you're going to end up spending a little more for those, and a laptop would be just as better to be able to use anywhere you'd want to go. The next thing to consider is the type of software or type of peripherals you might be using. If you're using software that requires a lot of processing speed, or requires an external device of some kind, it might be hard to hook that up to a laptop. In the same token, if you're using a big huge printer, a big scanner, and things that might have to hook to a computer, you might want to go with a desktop instead because those items aren't really portable either and you might want to go with a desktop option because it's not portable. Those are the main features to look at when you're deciding between a laptop and a desktop and I wish you the best of luck on your choice!"