Sure, what you suggest is entirely practical. In these days, you use a
USB keyboard and mouse.

I don't want to give you the impression that there are no compromises in
using a laptop relative to a "real" desktop. There are some
compromises, but mostly they are on the outside fringes of performance
and expandability. For anything like routine desktop applications, the
laptop, even a "low-end" model will be just fine. On the other hand,
there is no laptop on which I'd want to do, for example, video editing
and DVD authoring, even though the laptop makers would suggest that you
can (and they'd be technically right, you can, but I wouldn't want to).


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