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Question for laptop owners/former owners

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rking12345678

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I'm currently debating whether I should sell my laptop, an Alienware m5550-r3 with a Core 2 Duo 1.66ghz CPU, 2GB RAM, 100 GB HDD, ATI x1400 GPU, Windows XP MCE 2005, so I can put some money into my new desktop which I already use 95%+ of the time anyway or hold onto it for some purpose I'm not sure of. To anyone that's switched from a laptop or desktop, or simply bought a new desktop, what did you do with your old computer? I know this isn't a completely logical way to make my decision but opinions from other computer users are usually helpful anyway. Thanks for any information, and I apologize if this is in the wrong forum but I couldn't figure out where else to stick this.
 
I went from all desktop to all laptop for about a year or two. Even after I got a desktop again, I was still using my laptop as my more primary machine. When I got rid of that, I started using an older/slower laptop and probably use that about 50% of the time. But I don't do anything overly intensive on either machine.
 
i went to laptop only for a time, and then bought a desktop to play games on. i had intended on making the desktop my main machine, but i'm so used to being mobile now that i hardly ever turn the desktop on.

personally i would save your laptop at least long enough to make sure you won't want to keep using it in the future.
 
My laptop is for travel. My floortops are for serious work at home. 🙂
 
I pretty much went from quad core 2.4ghz mini desktop to dual core 1.6ghz laptop a couple of years ago. I never really needed the full power of the quad cores and it was noisier and heated up the room. Once in a blue moon I'll turn it on to play Counter strike or look for files that I have on the computer.

I stack things on the desktop since it's next to my desk.

The laptop (tablet) is usually in tablet mode next to my 24" lcd, so it functions as a secondary monitor that I use mainly for emails or I can also scribble notes onto. It's fast enough to handle my regular browsing/media/vmware/development needs. It could be faster, but it'll do for now.
 
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