lol in my country (south africa) we got blessed with 'load shedding'. i.e the state owned power utility Eskom, switch of our electricity for 2.5 hours up to x3 a day. As there is not enough capacity.

So one huge advantage of laptops are a)they run on batteries

b) If you do need to run the laptop of an inverter(i dare not say ups) its much easier to power for longer.