• emptiestplace@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Am I confused, or are you confidently asserting that desktop systems are objectively superior to laptops?

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      1 year ago

      they are. (unless we’re talking about Mac only, which are not as repairable or upgradable)

      desktop allow for a far better modularity, and reparability, far more ports, PCIe expansions like sound cards, etc.

      If my screen breaks or I’d rather use a bigger one, I just buy a monitor and plug it in. If my CPU dies or is no more enough for my use case, I’ll just buy a better one while still using every other component. If I need more hard drives, I’ll just buy more SATA cables. If I need better sound, I’ll buy a sound card.

      those features are dealbreakers. laptops will never be able to compete with a real desktop.

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        1 year ago

        Desktops are superior even if only for the better cooling options, allowing your chips to sustain higher clockspeeds for longer without the machine sounding like a jet taking off

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        Aside from all of that, desktops are also far less constrained. If you have a CPU whose performance scales well with power (ie not an M2 but maybe an M3) you can slap it in a desktop and be able to give it 500 watts of power and a giant ass cooling setup to enable that performance. You can’t do this with the physical constraints required of a laptop.

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      1 year ago

      Are you implying they’re not? The only reason anyone even buys laptops is because PCs aren’t portable. Otherwise PCs are the best.