I prefer my desktop (I work from home). Nice big keyword with 2 big monitors, bliss!
I don't like laptops for work. My company gave me a nice new Mac but I just use it for access.

Love iPad for idle surfing.

What are your choices?

Laptop because I work from home, but also can work anywhere remotely. I can still have an external keyboard and monitors at home, so a desktop offers no benefit and has more negatives.

Laptop. I have a dock + 2 monitor setup with external mouse & keyboard at both the office and home office.

This

Laptop for work.
Desktop for gaming.
Laptop for travel gaming.

Same setup I have.

Bunk Moreland said:

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Laptop. I have a dock + 2 monitor setup with external mouse & keyboard at both the office and home office.

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Obvious answer +1. I don't know how people do full time work on a laptop other than its not really work... It's usable when needed for travelling but so much more capable when on a dock.

At home, my dock is plugged into a KVM so I can have just one set up at home and switch with just a button.

Athanasius said:

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Laptop for work.
Desktop for gaming.
Laptop for travel gaming.

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This is the Way....

Agree with all. If I have to pick one, it's laptop with docking station and monitors. Although difficult to fully do my job just on the laptop, I still have some functionality if traveling with it. Can easily unplug and take it to a meeting as well.

All that said, I have a desktop I use at home so I can leave my laptop at work.

My entire firm is plug and play. I can go into any office/cube/workstation, plug in my laptop, and the dock/monitor/mouse/keyboard setup automatically works. Only work in a "true" laptop situation when I'm in a hotel room or on an airplane.

Bunk Moreland said:

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Laptop. I have a dock + 2 monitor setup with external mouse & keyboard at both the office and home office.

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are there people who do not realize you can connect full size keyboard and external mouse and extra monitors to a laptop?!?!?!?

gigemags-99 said:

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Bunk Moreland said:

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Laptop. I have a dock + 2 monitor setup with external mouse & keyboard at both the office and home office.

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Same. I thought this was a given??

at a previous job before work-from-home I liked the desktop because it meant it stayed at the office.

At work (high school chem teacher) i have both a chromebook & a PC. Prefer the PC for time consuming work because it's faster & dual monitors are a must. The chromebook is for running Slides at the front of the room & taking attendance, and for bringing home on the few occasions i need to do work at home. Now I need a PC at home with dual monitors & I'll be set.

Desktop. Work stays at one spot. Can't creep into other places. Boundaries. I've worked from home since 2002-2003.

91_Aggie said:

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are there people who do not realize you can connect full size keyboard and external mouse and extra monitors to a laptop?!?!?!?

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It appears rhoswen may have answered your question.

I am quite surprised that no one has said iPhone for Pornhub.

Unless you built it yourself for gaming, there's absolutely nobody who should own a desktop in 2023.

hoosier-daddy said:

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Unless you built it yourself for gaming, there's absolutely nobody who should own a desktop in 2023.

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Or high def video editing, big data analysis, etc.

There are plenty of commercial applications that require some serious horsepower and cooling that you just can't get in a laptop. But yeah, I don't see any reason for anyone to need a random dell or HP desktop that costs a few hundred bucks.

I prefer desktop when I'm in the office or working from home. I have to travel to client sites several days per week, so I end up doing a lot of work on my laptop.

Bunk Moreland said:

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Laptop. I have a dock + 2 monitor setup with external mouse & keyboard at both the office and home office.

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This for me. Pair of 32" at work and pair of 24" at home.

I have a huge monitor at work but if I work from home I use a 16 inch laptop. The work I do at home takes time but not all of my attention so I usually do it while watching a movie or a tv show.