Strictly speaking, I have yet to see a single desktop I'd want to be forced to sit in front of. You can't put a desktop in your purse and you sure can't just pick it up and carry it out to the patio.
I think PC elitism is kinda funny on the surface. But that's because I happen to know a tablet can do many things a desktop can't. And with an hdmi cable there is no reason to consider a laptop inferior screenwise as you can connect them to any TV you want to sit it next to.
Now of course, if you buy an inferior laptop, you have an inferior laptop. But I could say the same about desktops. They are not magically better unless you buy the right parts, and then those parts become inferior at an incredible speed.
It says nothing if you make the usual mouse keyboard comments, as you can plug those into a laptop or tablet.
But recently I have had to get a grip on my tech envy which was getting out of hand. If you don't commute, you likely have no specific need of a tablet. Why pick a tablet over a laptop if their is limited point in doing it. I can sit in my comfy chair with either equally well. And I have found that a 10in tablet gets a bit weighty after a few minutes.
I like how a tablet is much more functional than a ereader, but, if the point is to read a typical book, the ereader is also easier on the weight and the eyes. Plus tablets are lousy in sunlight. But then so is a laptop to a point. But then I have yet to enjoy watching TV with too much light hitting the screen. Hell even paper can be a nuisance with glare hitting the page
I don't have a job to spend an hour plus coming and going from on a public transit method, nor do I own a cottage (sadly) to need something to amuse myself at. So my purchase of a tablet when they first arrived was basically tech envy. And I am annoyed at myself for being that way.
But I don't own a desktop for a reason. They are great big desk eating monsters, and really, anything that they can do a laptop can do. No really, your super duper supposedly better desktop is not a better machine than my laptop. It can't do anything my laptop can't.
Granted it also helps that I couldn't care less about a wide swath of games vital to most of the kids these days. So having an up to the minute video card is not much of a perk to me. I can run War in the East and Civilization V and run several applications at the same time as well as have it stream Netflix to my TV while doing routine work on it at the same time.
But inasmuch as tablets are concerned, I was a bit flustered that my Asus epad Transformer would not run Frontline Road to Moscow for Android. Clearly our tablet games are following the same process that PC games do, they are getting more and more hardware demanding. My Asus Nexus 7 runs it just fine. But these devices have to actually be 'needed' by the individual, and in my case, I have had to realize, I was buying toys out of a desire to 'keep up with the Jones' and that is never a good reason. Any game I can play on a tablet, I can play on my laptop. And if I am in the same room as the laptop, there is no logical reason to not use the laptop. And my laptop can basically go with me casually almost any where.
And there is a limit to how vital it is to need a quasi computer when sitting on the toilet
My laptop is never unplugged unless there is a specific reason to do it also. So comments regarding battery duration mean nothing.
Until I obtained my current Sony Bravia 32 in TV, I was actually using the Asus 10in tablet on my desk as a mini TV as well. And if you leave it plugged in, it also has no need to care about charge duration.
One thing I have learned to like about a laptop over a desktop. During a storm, you can just ignore the risk of the power going out and you losing all of what you were working on. If the power goes out, you have a couple of hours to make the decision to back up any data. When the power goes out for a desktop, it goes off immediately too.
Wargame, 05% of the time.
Play with Barbies 05% of the time.
Play with Legos 10% of the time.
Build models 20% of the time
Shopping 60% of the time.
Exlains why I buy em more than I play em.
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