Who is to say which machine would have the "poorer" drive, the laptop or the desktop? I have a couple Thinkpads that have very nice cd drives that I have used with Exact Audio Copy to make very nice rips.
Is ripping from a laptop as good as a desktop?
I have a laptop with dbPoweramp installed that I've been using for my ripping running windows 7 to my server. I was wondering if I'd get better results use my windows 7 desktop or would it make any difference?