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 If portability is not a factor for you I would absolutely hands-down go with a PC desk top for a couple of reasons:1)  You pay a fair sized premium for the portability of a laptop and could get a much higher end desktop for the same money
 2)  Upgradeability.  You can upgrade almost everything in a desktop machine thus extending the useful life of the same basic system and spreading the cost of upgrades out over a longer time.
 
 And the clutter isn't really that much more significant over a laptop, especially if you're plugging a mouse, keyboard, bamboo pad, monitor, printer, etc. in.
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