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To: golfbum who wrote (237074)	7/25/2007 2:44:23 PM
From: NicoV	Respond to of 275872

These days, portables start having dual DVI outputs, capable of driving even a 30" LCD at 2560x1600. The market for desktops is rapidly moving to a gamers only market. Or people that like to build their own PC (probably overlapping a lot with the gamer market). I find the performance of my laptops not CPU limited but IO limited (harddisk, network, wireless). When solid state hard disks come down to 200-300 euro for 60 or 80 GB, I'll buy one. That should solve most of the hard disk latency issues. It would provide a much more perceivable performanc boost than a 1 or 2 speed bins faster cpu. I've recently bought 2 new laptops. I was surprised at how much of the laptop market has integrated graphics (I don't have any hard numbers, but it seems much more than a couple of years ago). Another thing that bothers me with laptops is that they keep hovering around the 3-4 hours battery life. Runnning a notebook a full (working) day on 1 charge, that would be nice (without increasing the weight of the laptop of course).

To: golfbum who wrote (237074)	7/25/2007 2:58:44 PM
From: seti	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Although I like the mobility of a notebook I still find a bigger screen, e.g. 24" wide screen, is more suited to my purposes much of the time. Furthermore DVI and a 1920x1080 graphics capability are needed to drive such a screen properly. I have rarely heard anyone complain about too much screen space - if they don't have to lug it around. Many business users would gain from bigger screens so they and look at more than one piece of info/program at the same time - ie. email and spreadsheet. Transaction users demand rugged full sized keyboards. So much for silly arguments about hardly anyone needs a desktop with large screen.