With the advent of laptops and their price coming down to the affordable range of the common man, desktop computers have become a bit outdated. Besides , a laptop provides the facility of mobility, it can be used much more comfortably, while in a desktop a person is bound to work sitting straight, this becomes painful at times when at a stretch long hours of work has to be done with the computers. Despite the fact that a desktop computer is immobile and it cannot be used sitting in beds, it has certain blessings also. A desktop computer is less delicate and thus can be used more freely, while with a laptop a person needs to be all the time cautious as it is very delicate. A laptop hardware gets easily affected due to its more complicated design and thus ceases to function, while a desktop is less sensitive . A laptop can anytime crash due to and thus can pose a serious problem during emergency, a desktop system does not crash that frequently. Moreover, as a minimum distance is maintained with the eyes and the desk where a desktop monitor is placed, it creates lesser strain on eyes rather than a laptop. Thus, a desktop computer if obtained at a much cheaper rate, can still be a better choice for a person who does not have to do a lot of travelling for his/her work. Cheap desktop are being offered by quite a few companies like the Acer Aspire Desktop being offered by Acer, Lenovo Think Centre Desktop Computer offered by Lenovo, HP Pavilion Slimline Desktop from HP stable, Apple iMac 1.83GHz Core Duo Desktop Computer from Apple etc. The Acer desktop a good configuration like a core dual processor, 320 GB hard drive, 2 GB memory etc. It can play all kinds of DVD, online games or MP3 files. The HP desktop is even better with the offerings of 4 GB memory, a core dual processor and 500 GB serial ATA hard drive. The Lenovo desktop has a 80 hard drive and 1GB memory with Intel Core Duo processor. The Apple offer consists of a 160 GB hard drive and 1 GB memory. All these offerings are at a very cheap price.