Quite a few of my friends have trashed their desktops for notebooks. I have always used a notebook as an extension to my desktop. Meaning that this is as mobile as I?m going to get. Notebooks offer me portability and storage. Storage being the number 1 priority. I?m not going to type on an Android Tablet or an iPad, they are not quick enough to transcode a 2GB video and despite what others think the ?Cloud? is not as safe as its made it out to be. Tablets have too many limitations for what I require from a mobile device. Yet in a way so do notebooks, I use my notebook when I am away from home, either working at the fire department or when I travel for HiTech legion. It allows me to store needed data, apps and entertainment. Since I have a YouTube Channel my notebook has also become my mobile transcoder.