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"desktop computer" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it whenever you are referring to a computer designed to be used on a desk or table, as opposed to a laptop or tablet. For example: "I do most of my work on a desktop computer in my home office."
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desktop computer
noun
A computer of a size designed to be used on a desk or table, as opposed to larger machines, such as mainframes, and smaller machines, such as laptops and palmtops.
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Computations required to plot dendrogram take several minutes on a standard desktop computer.
A desktop computer became a laptop computer.
The desktop computer itself has two screens.
A desktop computer sat unused beside them.
Buy a laptop, not a desktop computer.
One gravestone is shaped like a desktop computer.
On Tuesday your desktop computer crashes yet again.
This can make a desktop computer every five seconds.
The hard drive in my Windows desktop computer has died.
A new Mac Pro, the professional desktop computer.
But on a desktop computer, the issue is trickier.
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