Laptop now a day are so common that even kids has their own personal laptop. Laptop make life easier and very much convenient. The only cons of laptop is that not all of them are powerful thus making it very limited for heavy uses like using Photoshop and other image and video editing software not like Desktop PC can be upgraded to its maximum. However, if your going to use a laptop just for research, typing and other lite weight purposes then I strongly recommend that you should get one.