You're in the market for a computer, but you just aren't sure which type you want to get. Maybe you're replacing an old desktop that is now a dinosaur and is way too slow to do much of anything online. Do you want another desktop? Or are you maybe looking for the mobility and freedom you will receive from owning a laptop?

Which is best? It's not as easy as it use to be to choose between the two. In days of past laptops use to be much slower than their desktop brothers. But now you can get laptops that are quick and at times perhaps faster than a desktop. Another problem use to be the amount of hard disk space that was available. In desktops you never really had to worry. The amount you got for storage was pretty much equivalent to the amount of money you wanted to spend on the desktop. Laptops although in the past were limited to a smaller amount of storage space no matter how much you spent on one.

Another problem was the picture of a desktop monitor was very good, not always sharp, but much nicer than what you would receive on an older laptop computer. Plus back a few years laptops weighed more than they do now. Making them easier to carry about, but still cumbersome none the less.

Now you have so many different choices in desktops and laptops it's at times really a hard decision. Laptop prices have come down also in the last few years compared to what they use to be. Now you can actually buy a laptop for cheaper than some desktop computer models. The storage space on the hard drive is higher, than than and in fact as high as desktops are now. The picture rivals those monitors you can purchase with a desktop. Also the weight is much less sometimes weighing in as little as three pounds. So really the past reasons for not getting a laptop are not around any longer.

Desktops have also made great strides over the years, you have a choice of monitors between the CRT and LCD, and one gives you a better picture that is sharp, which the other gives you more colors. The hard drive storage is at times tremendous, depending again on how much you want to spend. They now have CD burring drives in every computer that is sold, and some have DVD burning drives too. You can get a very decent computer for around $400 to $500 now and have a fast machine with good storage capability.

Of course you also have flash drives and external hard drives that you can store your information on, and a lot of these are not very expensive. So storage isn't as big of a deal as it use to be.

Really though the biggest decision is do you want to have a computer that you can take along with you? Or do you not need that mobility available? Which ever way you choose to go, make sure to research your options and get the one that offers you the most for the amount of money that you spend.