I’m satisfied with my lightweight laptop and don’t anticipate ever buying a desktop again. My wife may get a tablet to go with her laptop, but I don’t like tablets myself.
My wife and I have both been using laptops for over a year now. Both have Win 7, lots of RAM, and SSDs. They do pretty much everything we need, and can take them with us everywhere. I do have a big iMac for a ‘Desktop’(that thing is awesome), and we have iPads for when we need to travel and can’t lug a big laptop around.
There was a posting a few days ago about Linux based operating systems, wish I knew if I could use them on this thing, man, do I hate windows 8!