Originally Posted by
lazymangaka
Why would getting a laptop be a mistake? I'm not saying you're wrong, but I am curious about your reasoning.
Me? I've used laptops exclusively since my senior year of high school. The Macbook that I bought that year followed me to school every day, then traveled with me to Texas for BMT, Mississippi for technical training, and South Dakota for my first base. The HP that replaced my Macbook then spent 6 months and more than 10,000 miles traveling from South Dakota to Texas, then to Arizona, to North Carolina, back to South Dakota, to Arizona again, then finally down to Florida for my second assignment. My current laptop, the Lenovo in my signature, was purchased in March and has been to Afghanistan, Qatar, Germany, and Canada--and that was all before getting back to Florida; it's been even more places since then.
The idea of having taken a full desktop along for all of that traveling makes my brain and my back hurt. My trusty Lenovo Z570 has been portable enough to take with me the world over while still having enough power to play any modern game at wholly acceptable framerates.