It seems that every person in the first world who posts in IJBM hates laptop

MillerCross · 2011-09-27 10:39:35

I mean, really, what the fuck?

Central Avenue · 2011-09-27 10:43:06

I don't hate my laptop. Most of the time.

Also I originally typed "slaptop"

Forzare · 2011-09-27 10:44:07

I like my laptop.

MillerCross · 2011-09-27 10:44:17

I dunno, I was just noticing a trend in the two last "Fuckity fuck, my laptop is shot down" discussions we've had.

Icalasari · 2011-09-27 11:10:13

My laptop needs to die

I still prefer laptops over desktops though

MadassAlex · 2011-09-27 11:14:43

Desktops are better value for money by a significant margin, plus are easily modified.

I'd think much more kindly of laptops if that whole "external graphics card" thing took off.

BecNoir · 2011-09-27 11:14:49

My laptop sucks, mang.

Good thing I have a PC

Icalasari · 2011-09-27 11:16:34

^^ I like the portability

...Besides, Laptops are required for ACAD

BecNoir · 2011-09-27 11:17:28

Seriously, why can't I have a macbook or something.

BecNoir · 2011-09-27 11:20:36

Also, why in the "first world"?

Evergreen · 2011-09-27 11:21:06

I only have a laptop. I would never take a desktop to college. Hell, I don't need one period. I didn't pay for this laptop, I have no interest in modifying it, I'm not a gamer...I don't have a strong opinion either way (as always) but I think a laptop or at least a netbook-something portable, ok?!-is near-essential for college.

This laptop still works fine. So no problems there. And my previous one wasn't sucking near the end of its life because it was a laptop, but because it was 3 years old and critically outdated due to recent advances like the rise of dual-core processors.

It's a 2009-bought MacBook Pro 13 inch. So many people have these at school...

MillerCross · 2011-09-27 11:24:38

Desktops are better value for money by a significant margin, plus are easily modified.

Don't know how is it where you live, but unless you buy a second hand desktop, then prices look as thus:

Regular Desktop modern desktop: 2.000.000 pesos, which translates into something akin to 3000 bucks

Regular laptop: 1.200.000 pesos = 1800 bucks

And my previous story with three desktops having died by overheating due to external heat problems, and fucking up my electric light bill say that it's really not worth the investment. I guess I could buy an amazing second hand desktop computer that already has some modifications like a partitioned disk, but as it is, laptops are incredibly more useful to me.

Of course, it's in a situational context, really, so I can't exactly claim that laptops are incredibly better and everyone should have them, but I don't see much of an advantage a desktop gives you besides gaming.

Also, why in the "first world"?

I noticed that vandro liked laptops in one thread. Not to mention that that one time Chagen's laptop went "BANG", only people from the US complained about HP.

BecNoir · 2011-09-27 11:26:56

US =/= every developed country ever

MillerCross · 2011-09-27 11:29:40

blah blah i like to bitch. who cares, it was an edit on the fly so it didn't look as if i was bitching about every IJBMer ever.

Crimson · 2011-09-27 11:34:04

See the thing is, I have to move from two completely different places once a week. So, I pretty much have to use a laptop.

MillerCross · 2011-09-27 11:41:30

^ Yeah, that too. I don't live in Santa Marta, but I need a computer, so I can ~~watch my porn~~ study my movies and stuff at home, and I can't do that from an university system, for a variety of reasons (Time constraints being the biggest one), so it's either a portable system I can have at the dorm and that I don't mind dismantling for every little trip back home in order to visit the family or having a big thing that you can't bring home and have to leave at the dorm at the hands of strangers.

--shudder--

captainbrass · 2011-09-27 11:54:25

I have no complaints about my laptop. I have many complaints about my broadband provider, but not my laptop. Also even $1800 sounds like an awful lot for a laptop. Mine was a few hundred pounds, but the dollar exchange rate can't be so bad as to make it anywhere near that expensive.

MillerCross · 2011-09-27 11:56:43

Welcome to Colombia, wheeeeee

there are laptops worth a 2.000.000 pesos, here. But they are by and at large an exception.

Also, remember that a pound = 2 dollars.

captainbrass · 2011-09-27 12:09:36

Does it? God, I didn't realise the rate was that favourable. In that case, laptops probably aren't that much more expensive in Colombia than here.

MillerCross · 2011-09-27 12:10:29

Welp, it's based by going over the excange rate here

Lemme check to be sure...

MillerCross · 2011-09-27 12:14:18

Nope, not double, but it's

1 dollar: 1900 pesos

1 Sterling Pound: 3000 pesos.

so...almost double, I think.

Counterclock · 2011-09-27 12:16:06

Lol Title change.

Subtle change at that.

MillerCross · 2011-09-27 12:20:38

Subtlety ain't how I roll, honey.

Nyktos · 2011-09-27 12:28:28

@Juan_Carlos:

Don't know how is it where you live, but unless you buy a second hand desktop, then prices look as thus:

Regular Desktop modern desktop: 2.000.000 pesos, which translates into something akin to 3000 bucks

Regular laptop: 1.200.000 pesos = 1800 bucks

Yeah, but that desktop is waaaaaaaaaaaaaay more powerful than the laptop.

MillerCross · 2011-09-27 12:30:03

I've had both, and the answer to that seems to be lolno.

Nyktos · 2011-09-27 12:52:56

Well then, I dunno what to say. Whoever imports computers to Colombia is insane, I guess? Normally a desktop in the same price range as a laptop is always substantially more powerful, no exceptions.

MillerCross · 2011-09-27 12:59:10

Yeah, the thing is, desktops kinda require modification and to buy the better parts yourself around here. On their own they're pretty much shit. And that involves even more money as you need to also import most of the parts, which is tons of money by itself.

So, erm, yeah, too much money for a medium advantage over laptops, imo. Sure, it may be much more powerful, but I'm not reallly interested in power, am I?

Noimporta · 2011-09-27 13:20:39

only people from the US complained about HP.

You know it hurts me deeply to contradict you, but I'm from the third world and I hate HP laptops, specially my own.

That being said, while it's true that Desktops get better specs for less money, unless you are interested in gaming, the convenience of being able to freely move your computer around, even if it's just within the house, cannot be overstated.

MillerCross · 2011-09-27 13:24:11

You know it hurts me deeply to contradict you,

awwww

but really, the thing is, it'd be a contradiction if you had spoken up in that thread.

why do you hate them, exactly? I mean, I wanna know if I should sell this one and get a better one or just keep it or something, but nobody has really been clear as to which is exactly a better choice much beyond the fact that they hate HP because of personal experience with them. And said personal experience tends to be over the top failure without any cause behind it.

Noimporta · 2011-09-27 13:33:12

Well, in my case, it's their tendency to constantly overheat, forcing me to keep it underclocked all the time, which means that what by all means should run most of the stuff I want to decently (It has 2 GB of RAM and a 2 Ghz dual core processor, not much, but I tend to gravitate towards old/simple stuff) ends up lagging up all the time. This is something I noticed in a few other HP/Compaq laptops too, but if yours works fine, then by all means keep it.

MillerCross · 2011-09-27 13:35:33

Hurm, that sounds familar, definetly.

I am getting overheating issues here too, but they don't happen when I'm not in Santa Marta, so I thought it was something akin to the weather or whatever.

on hindsight, that sounds pretty dumb.

thanks.

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