laptops

Think of it like this:
A refrigerator can hold ALL of the beer but a cooler can go with you into the back yard, camping, block parties, tailgating, fishing, you name it.

Is a laptop going to be as fast and have as much storage as a desktop? in this day and age, just about. Just remember that just about the only things you can upgrade on a laptop is the RAM and hard drive, so buy it the way you want it.
I'm pretty much a Dell guy but the old thinkpad I had was dang near bullet proof.