Intel Corp (INTC)

[chipguy]

I find that modern laptops provide more than enough computing horsepower for what I need.

Aside from paying twice as much for half as much processing power,
memory, and storage with lower reliability due to the challenging
thermal environment; my deal breaker for laptops is the cramped
and compromised keyboard, small screen, and poor pointing device.
Let's not forget you can't spec let alone build it yourself, you are at
the tender mercy of an OEM and whatever floor sweeping components
they bought discounted last month.

If you are a road warrior and have to work from numerous locations
then a laptop is a must. I don't understand folks that buy a laptop
to only use at a nice spacious desk. It is funny seeing them hunched
over peering into a little screen with their hands crunched together
looking for misplaced keys and cursing the inaccuracy of their touch
pads. I try to sympathise as I lean back in my chair overlooking wide
expanse of 27 inch screens and effortlessly work a full size keyboard
and nice accurate and fluid mouse as cool air gently and quietly passes
over the big and ample motherboard with its rows of big fat DIMMs in
the silent box off to the side of my desk.