Presumably, it's because the laptop is the second choice option, Plan B, if you will, and it's developed such a raging inferiority complex over this that it will soon head out on its own to start a deranged and ill-advised killing spree, carefully planned so as to provide the desktop with that one mystery it could never solve, and thus, finally, gaining a measure of victory, even in its own inevitable destruction.

...Am I warm?