Castastic: I agree with your opinion. And therefore I believe that pallyndrome should make a list with left 'computer' and right 'laptop' and than typing all the benefits one has compared to the other. Than she could compare what will suite her best.
Oh well, I can help her a little on the way though.
Computer Laptop
Capable of upgrading all the hardware only harddrive and sometimes dvdplayer can be upgraded
Not transportable transportable
No battery battery
outdated after proxi 5 years outdated after proxi 2 years
Seeing this list I could understand that people are easly choosing for a laptop instead of a desktop. But when you do, please consider the upgrade capability of the computer compared to the faster outdated laptop, which goes actually hand in hand with if hardware can be upgraded or not.