I don&#x27;t care about portable. How often do I want to use a computer to make something somewhere that&#x27;s not the office or at home? Never, in my experience.<p>&quot;Well, you can hook it up like it&#x27;s a desktop.&quot;<p>The laptop may be portable, but the monitors and peripherals definitely aren&#x27;t. That setup isn&#x27;t portable, only the laptop part of it. In the event that I hook it up like a desktop, I&#x27;m paying more for the privilege of having an under-powered desktop running whatever god-awful driver collection goes along with it&#x27;s cruddy components and not infrequently pre-loaded with a bunch of bloatware as part of the install that has those drivers (often hard to find otherwise.)<p>For me, the desktop is the clear preference. If I want portable, I&#x27;m just consuming content - a tablet will do fine for that.