Posted by Svetaswan on
URL: https://www.es-forum.com/laptop-dangers-tp4026710p4026723.html

Oh - I didn't mean to imply that all laptops were bad across the board; I know that is some variability between laptops.  But I certainly did have a hard time finding a laptop that seemed comfortable.  From my experience, it seems that most laptops out there are electromagnetically-bothersome at least to some degree - although the degree to which they are bothersome may vary.

Of course, things are changing/shifting all the time; my statement above is mostly based on my experiences in 2010 and early 2011 - when I did a fairly extensive shopping-around process in order to find a laptop that was minimally-bothersome.  From my limited experience in shopping around for a laptop in 2013 - some of the laptops that are being built today may be less-bothersome than many of the 2010/2011 models....though there is still plenty of room for improvement.  I haven't managed to find any other laptop that is as seemingly harmless as my eMachines laptop normally is (with emphasis on "normally").  

Conversely - there very well could be some desktops that would cause me to react.  I haven't been exposed to as many recently-manufactured desktops; my impressions of desktops are mostly based on my positive experience with a Gateway desktop that I used from 2001 through early-2008.  I haven't seemed to have any problems with the relatively-large desktop towers that are in the Kinkos (Fed-Ex Office) that I've visited in recent years, either.  But since they are packing ever more powerful components into these desktops - plus enabling them with WiFi and Bluetooth functionality (and God knows whatever else)  - many of today's desktops may be considerably more bothersome than my ancient Gateway desktop.  Furthermore - there may not be as many "power-saving" options built into desktop systems, I don't know. (From my experience, enabling several of the power-saving features can reduce perceived emf.)

~Svetaswan

P.S. - Just wanted to add - that I've had the general impression that the larger size of desktops may be advantageous in some ways...I guess this is what I was trying to get at in my Sept. 29 post.  Perhaps if they built a computer with lower-power laptop components, and put them into a bigger, desktop-style body - it would present the best of both worlds.