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Who takes their Laptop Dev Machine Home?

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      Me. It rarely leaves my side.

      cheers Chris Maunder

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        All the time, but I'm a consultant - I can work from home more than I can work at the customer site. Funny, even if I lock up my laptop and leave it at the customer site (long term debug thing going on), it just feels wrong to leave it there....

        Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759

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          They do not pay me for that...

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            Me. It rarely leaves my side.

            cheers Chris Maunder

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            What Chris said.

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              Me. And also on vacations. :D

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                It always lives at home - or on special vacations where I might need to work (I don't ask for Paid Time Off if it comes along with me - it means I'm still working). More likely, however, if I carry any laptop anywhere, it's my "dirty" machine which never connects to anything of the least importance.

                Ravings en masse^

                "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

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                  What Chris said.

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                  What Ron said. :-D

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                    I don't. I wrote a little backup utility I use extensively and everything of any importance lives on a 32GB flashdrive that I keep with me. USB v3 of course. I found a deal at newegg and got three of them for four bucks each. I have everything I wrote at my previous three employers on there too and that's rather handy since it covers over twenty years of work. Surprisingly, much of it is still relevant for me since I still use MFC to write desktop apps but that will change when we choose a suitable successor and clear up enough time for the rewrite(s). BTW - these aren't really desktop apps. They are actually automation systems that control machines and/or talk to other stuff.

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                      What Ron said. :-D

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                      What James said

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                        I take my home laptop to work!

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                          I'm self-employed working from home so yeah, I take my laptop dev machine home. In fact my 4 y/o laptop travels when I travel, usually one day a week. I actually despise working on the smaller keyboard/single screen and gave up long ago on the crappy trackpad with invisible buttons. X| It'll work in a pinch but is no substitute for a real workstation with all the goodies.

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                            I work from home, so...yes?

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                              Work, what be this work thing, I'm enjoying retirement.

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                                My work machine is a desktop, so no. My home machine is a laptop that I use to remote desktop to the work machine, so does that count?

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                                  Me. It rarely leaves my side.

                                  cheers Chris Maunder

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                                  I thought you'd switched to the implant years ago.

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                                    We all take ours home, they don't like us leaving our lappies at the office, due to break-ins etc. And some of us are on stand-by for support, so we need them with us anyway. And if something were to happen that we couldn't go into work (due to transport, etc.) we havee our dev machine with us.

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                                      What James said

                                      Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

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                                      what Jörgen said

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                                        My constant companion.. ;P

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                                          Nope but it stays plugged in and available at office, use my home machine to remote if anything needs doing ( nicer setup than having to fire the laptop up at a table or something )

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