I know I said I wouldn't do this, but there are 3 things I need to say:
1.) You should reread the last thing I wrote. You would have seen that I was apologizing for myself, not for you. [?QUOTE} My mistake, I apologize. That said, this is an old, silly, thread, that could probably use an out of topic excursion to keep it interesting.
(2.) I don't think whippersnapper is any type of cuss word, and am not sure where you got that idea from. A whippersnapper is term old men use to describe young people.
I don't have that idea either. Who even uses the term "whippersnapper", at least in the past 50 years or so? That should have been a giveaway that it was just a prosaic b*** breaking, without any of the severity that you seemed to have associated with it .
3.) I apologize to you cap for saying that you called me a whippersnapper. After going back and looking, I now see that you were calling sage that. I apologize (see, i'm not afraid to admit to my own errors. We're human, it happens)
Hey not a problem.
Sorry, I just wanted to clear up the air on those three things. Everyone have a great day and a great week!
You do the same.
I hope that you'll try to realize, that just because I think that something is "*****ic" doesn't really mean that I'm not enjoying participating. Again a paradox, I know.
With that thought in mind, here's my "last word" on laptop v desktop. I think you have to admit that a laptop is much less convenient than a desktop, ergonomically. Pointing device rather than a mouse, and shrunken keyboard all add up to a less pleasant user experience. Generally the screens are not as accurate with respect to color rendition, nor is the resolution sufficient for many imaging tasks. That said, you can't drag your desktop to college or the office, so many people without the finances to afford both, make the compromise of necessity and go with the laptop. That's the whole point of netbooks, you do your road work on them, then transfer it with a USB drive to your desktop.
But then I suppose that if everybody just checked "i like both", what fun would that be?
[Edit] I even bought a laptop, just to show photos with, a $300.00 Celeron Toshiba "satellite". I lovingly refer to this as my "bonny little craptop". But, what I paid for it is a much as the insurance policy on an Apple "Pro Book" or whatever they call it would be. If this thing gets dropped or stolen, it's safe to say my world won't end. That couldn't be said of a high performance laptop that was purchased with the hope of replacing a desktop.