Why you should buy notebooks, not desktops
Source: ZDNet
Back when many users were moving from single to multi-tasking systems, the bottleneck to productivity was the system. The hardware couldn't keep up with the demands of the software, and many of us were caught in the middle, staring at an hourglass while we waited for our systems to catch up. Naturally, no one wanted hourglasses, so we sought out systems that broke the least amount of sweat when asked to do anything marginally complicated.
For telecommuters or road warriors, finding a notebook that delivered performance comparable to the faster desktops meant spending two to three times as much. Decent notebook systems were budget breakers.
Today, however, even the cheapest notebook computers outstrip the performance needs of the most demanding business users. (I'm not including the handful of CPU-intensive applications that most of your users don't run, anyway.) You no longer have to settle for a desktop because the notebook is too expensive.
