Irrespective of where you are and what you do. 馃枼 鈿★笍馃捇
It's hard to justify a desktop setup unless you're doing something heavy like gaming or development for gaming/VR. Plus you can always plug a laptop in to a multi-monitor setup for that screen real estate.
I don't like to program without at least two large screens (and a mouse) if I can help it, so desktop for me! Laptop is occasionally useful, but maybe two dozen occasions a year for me.
Given my development workstation uses a 27" 2560x1440 IPS center, with 19" 1920x1200 on each side of it, with a model M keyboard?
Call me when I can get a full size full travel buckling spring keyboard in a laptop, that detaches from the screen so I can have the keyboard and display comfortable distances apart, in a 27" display with at least TWO external monitor connectors. Until then? Not so much.
Though I will say my MSI Ge70 is the closest I've ever come to a laptop I can stomach typing on for any length of time... but the miniscule tinkertoy 17.3" display just doesn't cut it, at least not at anything I'd consider a comfortable viewing distance. At least lets me get some work done every time I land back in the ICU. (which with my Parkinsons is an increasingly frequent issue)
To be fair though I recoil in horror the way I see most people hunched over their keyboards with their faces planted single-digit inches from the screen. It's like "Does't that hurt your back, your hands, AND your eyes?!?"
Meanwhile with my 27" IPS I crank the system font size up to 24px (vs the default 16) leaning back, arms outstretched to the keyboard tray so my head is a good four to five feet from the display.
Laptop for work, desktop for gaming (though I don't have a gaming desktop... you asked what we preferred, not what we have.) Really really want one of these, and will probably purchase one when they actually start shipping (right now, in funding stage, and shipping is late, and I don't want to tie up even a little bit of cash on this just yet.)
Jason Knight
The less code you use, the less there is to break
Gergely Polonkai
You have to believe in things that are not true. How else would they become?
If you check my answers to other questions like what is my equipment, what is in my bag, etc. you will see that I始m a road warrior. I始m ready to work wherever I may go, and my travel gear includes my trustworthy notebook.
However, I worked with desktop computers for almost 15 years. This includes a lot of things on the spectrum from a computer under my desk to a whole room of servers in data centres. I got used to the constant murmuring of ventilation. I始m not addicted, but I like it much more if I can hear the power under my code.
I could live without the sound of HDDs, though.