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Thanks to the fees charged by the miniaturization lab, laptops are generally more expensive than their desktop counterparts. They're also more expensive to fix. Forget about upgrading the hardware. Laptops are easily stolen. The battery life never lives up to the printed specifications. It's tough to get work done on a jet or in a café unless you’re really, really motivated to do so — ack! These are but minor quibbles.

You can dither about whether to get a laptop or a mobile device, à la the iPad. It’s a legitimate debate: If all you want to do is read email, browse the web, engage in the social networking thing, take pictures, watch films, or listen to music, you don’t need a laptop. Sure, the laptop can do all that, but if you don’t plan to create anything or do anything else requiring a full-on PC, get a laptop or tablet PC instead.