[Craig T]

Originally Posted by masraum

Because a laptop with a 27" screen is a real ***** to lug around.

Sure, you can buy a 27" screen and ron the laptop out to that, but then why have both if you can have just 1. I've NEVER owned my own laptop. I've been issued one at about half of my jobs, but I still mostly used my personal desktop unless I was travelling. These days, if I travel for personal reasons, I take my iPad and phone, of course.

I've just never had a reason to buy a laptop that probably won't give me the options that a desktop will.

This is me exactly^^^. I've worked with three laptops over my lifetime and all three were company issued. I hated docking in and out everyday on my last corporate gig, and seriously hated lugging it around on business travel. Once wifi became ubiquitous, and DropBox and other VDR's became cheap and easy to access, my iPad became an easy and capable replacement. My last big due diligence meeting was in a K&L Gates law office conference room. Of the 15 people in the room, there might have been four or five laptops. The rest were iPads reviewing documents in the cloud.

I bought a new 27‑inch iMac with Retina 5K display thee fonts ago and it's sitting on my desk in the home office. I love it. Great for streaming Moto-GP and F1 races, music, photos, etc. I'm retired now, so it's mostly for entertainment, but I have ZERO interest in owning a laptop.