Laptop or Desktop? What do you prefer for professional use and why?

.It depends on person's need.A professional loves to have a laptop ,because it is compact for him.A student likes both.A person working on high graphic environment needs a desktop with high performance.A gamer/video editor can work on both,but a desktop is the preferred.

it's depending on the usage but i prefer laptop it's easy to carry for any place in side or out side and keep you in touch with your business needs.

I prefer Laptop which is very easy to use officials whenever a time needed

1. I prefer desktop computers for those professional whose business or job is related with graphics or editing etc.. because desktop computer's performance is more better then laptops and have many options to upgrade the devices according to people's demands, these kind of options are not available in laptops except HDD and RAM etc..

2. I prefer laptops for those professionals who are doing only jobs in any companies/organization, because it is portable with affordable size and less weight.   

it depends up on your use. Choose What is better for you to use regularly, laptops can be  useful when it came to ease of  access, portability, cost, size , space, Data Security. any other professional use. But Desktops are made for those who have some space for it like office,home or a room since it needs a small place to sit including table& chair to use. Now a days Desktops are not so heavy they came in portable parts and can save a lot of space. One important feature of desktops are they can be customized with respect to the need of users. (eg: u can add more hd, Change graphics card ,ram etc or even the whole Mother board can be re assembled ) , when it comes to the repair option or trouble shooting i find it desktops are more easy to repair and troubleshoot. 

So choose your option wisely. understand ur need first .

It depends on personal choice that i take.I would prefer laptop if i don't have any problems carrying it and if it is safe in my hands.I would prefer to go for Desktop if my laptop does not fullfill my needs to do my work.

I can not say that something is better or worse, it all depends on your needs. The main thing is that you have a good operating system and there are no problems in work. I work remotely and travel a lot, so it's obvious that my choice fell on a laptop. Of course, there are also problems with him, but I can always ask, for example, what does it mean 'setup blocked by group policy' from experts and I will quickly get an answer to my question and options for solving it.

My opinion desktop is best option because users feel easy and free while working on desktop. But laptop have own position because it is best for mobile users like sales professionals and official people that are move from one place to another. 

I prefer laptop over desktop, because:

1. Convenience for setup: its easy to setup with laptop,the whole laptop comes with touch pad,keyboards and screen, it also have several ports, power port, hdmi/vga/dvi, usb, sd/microsd slots and ethernet port (some laptops don’t have ethernet port due it use wifi)
2. Non upgrade hardware: you won’t need to upgrade hardware on laptop, you can only upgrade RAM and hard drive, this means you not worried you upgrade wrong thing on laptop.
3. Good for college and students: Its good for college and students for university schools use.
4. Many laptop have VGA/HDMI/DVI video outputs: When laptop screen is damage like crack screen or color run out, you can simply plug it to second display (depends on video outputs).
5. There is so many gamers have console gaming for play high end games exclusives: You know console gamers already have laptop? Yes! because Console like ps4 xbox one can play GTA 5 or others high end game titles, most game can play any PC games on laptop like League of Legends,Counter Strike:Global Offensive,Dota 2 and others several games that only needs less hardware for laptop specs enough.
6. Cheaper laptops always enough for casual gaming: ok you know about PC games can run on laptop? yes! some games like League of Legends can run on laptop at 60FPS.
7. Laptop and tablet is in the future: Desktop PC is always good but not prefect because massive setup, only laptop and tablet is good and best for setup.
8. Less Power Consumption: Desktop PC are use more Power Consumption because the PSU, desktop PC PSU is too many consumption for power, laptops are use only less power consumption with laptop small PSU, its good because laptop have battery.
9. Connectivity: Most Laptop have WiFi and bluetooth built in, for desktop pc you need to buy WiFi USB adapter or Bluetooth Adapter which extra costs.
10. Costs of parts don’t need: Desktop PC needs another costs, Which means: $400 PC + Graphic card+ Keyboard + Mouse + Monitor which too many costs for PC setup, for laptop, it costs like this: $500 laptop + no extra accessories costs for optional: keyboard mouse monotor and video cables, you don’t need these accessories to use laptop as the desktop pc, when you buy laptop, it comes with laptop itself, power cable and manual book, some tablet bundle come with these but also comes with wireless keyboard and mouse as well the premium headphones.

Becouse laptop made only for personel uses not for industray label...some time we can use laptop like movie ,internet suffring , document file read and some time software 

Desktops are the best for the professionals because when ever they can upgrade the hardware's like graphic cards and the Ram, Hdd's for their needs but in laptop is an standard ones and if possible to upgrade means its quit expansive.