Ken Blake <Ken@invalid.news.com> wrote:
[...]

> You, and others here, may not think that's also true of my philosophy,
> but it actually is. If someone prefers a laptop to a desktop, that's
> fine with me. I don't care. If someone prefers a Ford to a Toyota,
> that's fine with me. I don't care. If someone prefers to vacation on
> a beach rather than a mountain, that's fine with me. I don't care.We
> are all entitled to our own preferences, and any effort to convince
> someone that my preference is better than his is highly unlikely to
> succeed (especially here in a newsgroup).
>
> I started this sub-thread, but wasn't trying to convince anyone else
> to do the same thing as I do. My main point on the initial post here
> was "These days many (perhaps most) people choose a laptop rather than
> a desktop even though they don't expect to travel with it. Why do
> they do that? Beats the shit out of me." I was simply expressing my
> lack of understanding as to why laptops are so popular. Despite other
> people's replies to my post, I still don't understand why, and I
> probably never will.

Well, you didn't just "not understand why", but you also said a laptop
"is a mistake for *most* people". That's not "I don't care." and it's
not just not understanding.

About the not understanding: We (Carlos, me, others) have said that a
main point is moveability - from one place in a room or home to another
-, portabilty - more or less the same, but not exactly the same (re: the
battery powered all-in-one) - and 'mobility' - take it somewhere else
(than in your home), *anywhere* and use it there. A laptop can do all
the above, a 'desktop' can't do any of them.

You've been ignoring those arguments, so it's no wonder that "I still
don't understand why, and I probably never will."

Ignoring *the* major feature of a product make any and all
'comparisons' meaningless and rather silly.

Frank Slootweg wrote:
> Ken Blake <Ken@invalid.news.com> wrote:
> [...]
>
>> You, and others here, may not think that's also true of my philosophy,
>> but it actually is. If someone prefers a laptop to a desktop, that's
>> fine with me. I don't care. If someone prefers a Ford to a Toyota,
>> that's fine with me. I don't care. If someone prefers to vacation on
>> a beach rather than a mountain, that's fine with me. I don't care.We
>> are all entitled to our own preferences, and any effort to convince
>> someone that my preference is better than his is highly unlikely to
>> succeed (especially here in a newsgroup).
>>
>> I started this sub-thread, but wasn't trying to convince anyone else
>> to do the same thing as I do. My main point on the initial post here
>> was "These days many (perhaps most) people choose a laptop rather than
>> a desktop even though they don't expect to travel with it. Why do
>> they do that? Beats the shit out of me." I was simply expressing my
>> lack of understanding as to why laptops are so popular. Despite other
>> people's replies to my post, I still don't understand why, and I
>> probably never will.
>
> Well, you didn't just "not understand why", but you also said a laptop
> "is a mistake for *most* people". That's not "I don't care." and it's
> not just not understanding.
>
> About the not understanding: We (Carlos, me, others) have said that a
> main point is moveability - from one place in a room or home to another
> -, portabilty - more or less the same, but not exactly the same (re: the
> battery powered all-in-one) - and 'mobility' - take it somewhere else
> (than in your home), *anywhere* and use it there. A laptop can do all
> the above, a 'desktop' can't do any of them.
>
> You've been ignoring those arguments, so it's no wonder that "I still
> don't understand why, and I probably never will."
>
> Ignoring *the* major feature of a product make any and all
> 'comparisons' meaningless and rather silly.
>

The 'most' people term in the big picture(all deployed Windows o/s) in
this case is and will always be false relative to 'most' needing or
wanting a desktop.
- As an example I asked two colleagues(admins in the Enterprise arena
that have a combined 300,000+ Windows units deployed, more than 75% of
those are laptops. I could ask 10 more and that percentage wouldn't
significantly change. 'Most' will always(and has for more than the last
10-15 yrs) be laptops as the correct choice.

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