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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
17" laptop - to carry around with you?
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In a bag around a campus, sure. I have a thin and light laptop that is easy to carry due to weighing less than 3lbs, and if you're lugging around a few heavy text books anyway, adding a laptop bag is not that big a deal.
The main thing a laptop has going for it in the above scenario is that it's one single piece. A tablet with a docking station and a keyboard (even worse if the two are separate) is more of a hassle to transport and set up, than a device where all you have to do is open the lid and press a button.
Different strokes for different folks in the end.
I have a gaming tower, a laptop that can run games easily, a Touchpad, and a smart phone, in addition to an eReader. They excel at different things, and I use them for different things. It would never, ever, occur to me to try and write a novel on the Touchpad, and I certainly wouldn't try to run Deus Ex: Human Revolution on the laptop.
Let's just say that if I had to pick one single device for everything... it wouldn't be one of the small portable ones, and no, I don't need a moment to think that over. A powerful PC can do anything the other three can, the smaller ones can do some, but not all. Easy as that.