For my birthday, I'm hoping for a laptop, but my parents are anti-tech so they want good reasons for me getting one. So far, I have only seen the typical reasons such as school and portability. Anyone here who has a laptop, could you post some things that are really better to do with them.

BTW, I'm turning 15, and the laptop I want is an HP G60-104CA

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/ca/en/ho/WF06b/321957-321957-3329744-64354-64354-3768345-3827780.html

My birthday is Dec. 6, so quick responses would be appreciated

EDIT(off topic): I'm trying to change the email for my account to my hotmail address, but it says that the email is already being used by someone. Is this an error, or did somebody steal my email?

lol! your birthday is the same day as my friend ^^

how much do your parents know about computers ?

if like nothing say stupid stuff like your current computer can't run a free game from the internet that you wanna play :p

if you want reasons that are true then.. find a game your current computer cant run :p haha...

say that the laptop uses much less energy so it's cheaper to use.

Err, what do you actually want it for?

I mean, I use mine as a way to do my Computer Science homework anywhere I go, for example, when I leave my dorm to go home.

But back in high school, here in NC, I wouldn't have been able to use it in class like I can in college (where it's largely a distraction from the course anyways), basically leaving it to be used around the house, where I could have just used my desktop.

So while I completely understand wanting a laptop, if you have to turn to the internet to justify it, maybe you'd better ask your parents for a new graphics cardor a new monitor.

Your circumstances may vary of course, because you may not even be in North America. Sure would be nice if there way some way you could list that kind of information in your forum profile...

I totally understand it. I would love to have a computer that could run Fallout 3 (current card is ATI Radeon 9600, which can't even run the Fallback mod), but my motherboard is too ancient for the newer generations of video cards, so I'd probably need a completely new desktop. Am thinking about a laptop as well.

Ricotez wrote:
but my motherboard is too ancient for the newer generations of video cards

Same with mine, and a laptop would be cheaper than a new desktop.

My parents confuse me, they bought my brother a $2000 desktop because he said he needed to build it for a class assignment, yet my parents wont let me get a $600 laptop.

@ Hober: I live in Ontario, about 30 mins(with traffic) away from Toronto.

A new monitor would be a bad idea for me, because my desk is so small my 19" seems giant.

appunxintator wrote:
A new monitor would be a bad idea for me, because my desk is so small my 19" seems giant.

You're missing the point. What I'm saying is to ask yourself if you really would use the laptop instead of just wanting to have it.

The ecology reason is good enough. I have both a desktop PC and laptop (which is much older and significantly slower, cannot even run Portal) and I would like to sell these two PCs and buy a poweful laptop I could take with myself to dormitory, school, home etc. And my parents would be satisfied with lower bill for electricity