Is a 14" laptop comfortable for a programmer to work with?
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Like your wife says: It's not the size that matters - It's how you use it... But to be serious: I have a 17" (Laptop, that is!) and that's WAY too big. I weighs half a ton and the power supply weighs twice that. I thought that with a 17" monitor and another external monitor it would work out well as dual screen. In retrospect, I could have make do with a 14" or 15" laptop screen, because for programming I almost only use the larger external monitor.
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Mine's 12 inches - but I don't use it as a rule :)
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I'm comfortable on my 15.6, but suspect smaller would be a squeeze. I've never tried smaller. I always want another screen though, vs. a bigger one, to split my desktop up, but I'm lived for about two years without and gotten used to it.
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Using 15", because it's comfortably on the lap. Not at work of course, since it would be capping the productivity. At work, a desktop with at least two 19" screens is expected. What kind of work? Development benefits from "screen estate" and a real keyboard. There's a huge difference in speed when controlling the PC blindly from a keyboard or having to muck around with a touchpad trying to use the scrollbar.
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Mine's 12 inches - but I don't use it as a rule :)
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_Maxxx_ wrote:
but I don't use it as a rule
Sorry! And my condolences to your wife.
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Me too, I just love my Dell 14" laptop
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Me too, I just love my Dell 14" laptop
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For any serious work I add external monitor(s) and keybord, so it doesn't really matter.
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Mine's 15, but I have a pair of larger monitors at the office so I only use the built-in for brief periods at home (and I don't like it) when I don't feel like connecting it to the TV. I also add a regular keyboard and mouse at both the office and home. In my opinion the built-in devices are only for emergencies.
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For me not really. I'm used to my 15'' laptop screen as an extension of my 19'' monitor. When I have program without my extra monitor I get more easily frustrated, but it really depends on what you're doing... if you have to do a lot of testing, it's not really handy.
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The more screen real estate the better. Where I worked before, one of the PhDs successfully made the arguement based upon a research paper that the number of screens has a direct correlation upon productivity and we all ended up with dual monitors... he ended up with three. 15.4 is the smallest I think is reasonable.
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I'm generally not comfortable when using anything less than 17". I don't just need a whole monitor to be big enough, I need each half of it to be big enough (I'm generally using two or more programs at a time, and if I only have one monitor then I need to be able to comfortable fit two windows on it). Which is why I rarely do anything serious on a laptop.
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Yes, but only if you're writing microcode.
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