# Ordered what will probably be my last Laptop Ever.

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**Created:** [September 1, 2013, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ordered-what-will-probably-be-my-last-laptop-ever/667717 "2013-09-01T08:12:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 21, 2013, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ordered-what-will-probably-be-my-last-laptop-ever/667717/21 "2013-09-21T04:42:03Z")

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> [@Belowjob2.0](#):
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> Agreed. It’s nonsense.
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> Imagine a laptop with 64 gigs of ram, an 18 inch super high definition screen, and 8 terabytes of solid state hard drives.
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> Here’s the catch: it weighs only a pound, and it’s only 3/4 of an inch thick.
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> If you don’t think there would be a huge market for such a beast, well, you got another think coming.

But why in the world would it be in a laptop form factor, and not the touchscreen or hybrid one? While you can argue that a mouse is superior to a touchscreen, there is no way a touchpad is superior. And that little nub?

Heck, I’ve been trying to get a touchscreen laptop since 2005–the only problem was that the graphics hardware was always severely underpowered.

> [@AaronX](#):
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> Desktops will disappear first. You hardly see them in stores already. Models available seem half-hearted.

I’m not going to argue with what you’ve seen, but this is absolutely ridiculous. There’s actually a purpose for a desktop–a more powerful computer that you can carry. There’s not really any reason not to have a touchscreen on a laptop.

I sincerely hope this is just because people haven’t seen so much reason to upgrade their desktops, since there’s so little a bargain model from a few years ago can’t do–as long as it has enough memory and a decent graphics card.

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