The phrase "a desktop model" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a model or version of a product, system, or software that is designed to run on a desktop computer.
Example: "The new software update includes a desktop model that enhances user experience with improved graphics and functionality."
Alternatives: "a desktop version" or "a desktop application".
Unfortunately, the classroom's 3-D printer, a desktop model made by the Beijing-based Delta Micro Factory, was acting finicky.
Microsoft has likewise moved away from a desktop model, according to Hillel Cooperman, a product unit manager on Microsoft's Windows User Experience team.
Many protective stands are available; some, when used on a table or desk, can make a portable computer more like a desktop model by raising the screen and making it easy to attach an external keyboard and mouse.
The controller is a desktop model of the robotic arm with the same degrees of freedom whose joints are equipped with sensors.
You can pick up a perfectly decent laptop for $499 (Dell Inspiron Laptop, at Dell.com), or, if you prefer a desktop model encased in twenty-four-karat gold with tempered glass panels through which you can watch purple liquid coolant percolate, then splurge on a special-edition Voodoo Omen (voodoopc.com; approximately $35,000).
Google preserving Flash on its platform buys them allegiance to a desktop model that is being replaced at the very moment as we're switching to the streaming cloud.
"A desktop modelling exercise has been performed and it was successful.
For phase I, the HTU was a desktop-model PC, connected to a regular telephone line, with a monitor, keyboard, and mouse; video camera; speakers; microphone; and glucose and blood pressure meters.
Probably the first artwork made for online sale and viewing, it existed only on a computer screen and could be called up by virtually any desktop model.
The keyboard for these 2 models is a separate unit much like a traditional desktop model computer and is unlike the more compact style of a laptop.
I abandoned a clunky desktop model long ago for a Dell laptop that offers almost all the advantages of an iMac or its emulators but has three features iMacs don't: a built-in battery backup, a built-in pointing device and the ability to be folded up and stuffed in a desk drawer or suitcase in a matter of seconds.
