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Desktop PCs have other advantages, too. They're less attractive to thieves. They'll last longer: spill a cup of coffee over most laptops and you're in serious trouble. They're exceptionally easy, and cheap, to upgrade. You can play the world's most visually stimulating games on them at mind-blowing settings. And, perhaps most tellingly, it makes much more sense to be sitting at a keyboard in the right position with a nice large monitor at eye level.

I'm not pretending any of these facts are new; deep down, everyone knows why PCs are superior to laptops. What I'm left wondering is: are people being lured lemming-like into the land of laptops by the flood of TV ads promising untold computing pleasure without properly reflecting on their decision? If in50 years time there's a generation of us with cricked necks and fingers bent in a permanent claw-like shape, we'll know who to blame.