well for me i prefer desktop than laptop...i been in the computer repair for almost 9 year now and i have difficulty in repair laptop mother board and its hard to trace the laptop problem than desktop...if you buy desktop its very easy to assemble and easy to replaced parts.for example in your laptop motherboard when in trouble you cannot buy right away a motherboard replacement. but in desktop you have lots of parts replacement and you can still use some of your old hardware to assemble new desktop...thanks you very much...and god bless all...