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Anthony Spadafora

I love my desktop but this ThinkPad convinced me to give laptops a second chance

ThinkPad X13 Gen 4 on wood table outside .

When you think of a computer what comes to mind first? Perhaps it’s one of the best laptops like the brand new MacBook Pro M3 or the Dell XPS 13. However, as someone who grew up in the 90s back when the family computer was still a thing, I picture a desktop PC complete with a monitor, a keyboard and a mouse.

While laptops have certainly come a long way from the bulky, less powerful notebooks we had just a little more than a decade ago, I still prefer doing most of my work on a desktop. There’s plenty of reasons why, like being able to use a mechanical keyboard and a trackball mouse or the extra screen space you get with an ultrawide monitor.

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