Portable machines still command a premium over their desktop counterparts, but the difference is increasingly small.

By performance standards, the computer can hold its own with any desktop counterpart.

Laptop hard drives typically take more abuse than their desktop counterparts and therefore have an even higher rate of failure.

Each version has the same Trident rendering engine as its desktop counterpart, but with additional improvements.

Like its desktop counterpart, the browser features full hardware acceleration.

Much like its desktop counterpart it comes bundled with a set of applications to perform basic tasks.

Each can exchange information with its desktop counterpart, though none of the programs will actually run on a Windows 95 computer.

It only has the basic mode of its desktop counterpart.

Most of the features present in the desktop counterparts are present in the mobile ones.

Server/enterprise benchmarks are built to an entirely different scale than a potential desktop counterpart.