Desktop vs Laptop
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I'm going to finally buy a new machine for myself, but am stuck trying to decide whether to get a desktop or laptop. I want to get a machine with Vista on it, a lot of RAM (preferably 4GB), a high-end graphics card, etc. I want those things mostly for my WPF development. Buying a desktop is definitely cheaper (especially since I already have a nice monitor). But, I'm leaving my current employer soon and will no longer have the laptop they let me use. So if I buy a desktop I won't have the sweet freedom to write my "leisure time" code away from the desk in my apartment. The only solution, though costly, is to buy a top-shelf laptop and then plug my monitor and keyboard into it when at home. I'm concerned that using a "docked" laptop as my regular home PC will be bad for the machine. Is this true? Does running a laptop with the lid closed for hours/days on end cause the machine to get really hot and deteriorate faster? Thanks for any info on this.
:josh: My WPF Blog[^]
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit. - AristotleJosh Smith wrote:
a top-shelf laptop and then plug my monitor and keyboard into it when at home.
Josh, that's exactly what I did and have never looked back. Instead of a dock, I run my laptop open (using an external monitor) and use a KVM to drive all my machines. My main dev box is a trusty Dell Inspiron 8600 (2GHz, 1G RAM, 60G 7200 rpm disk) which while dated, has yet to let me down. It's not Vista (at least not Aero) capable. Btw, I backup my source code to an external drive and periodically to DVD-RW. Hope this helps. /ravi
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Josh Smith wrote:
a top-shelf laptop and then plug my monitor and keyboard into it when at home.
Josh, that's exactly what I did and have never looked back. Instead of a dock, I run my laptop open (using an external monitor) and use a KVM to drive all my machines. My main dev box is a trusty Dell Inspiron 8600 (2GHz, 1G RAM, 60G 7200 rpm disk) which while dated, has yet to let me down. It's not Vista (at least not Aero) capable. Btw, I backup my source code to an external drive and periodically to DVD-RW. Hope this helps. /ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
Hope this helps.
Thanks Ravi, it does help.
:josh: My WPF Blog[^]
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit. - Aristotle -
I'm going to finally buy a new machine for myself, but am stuck trying to decide whether to get a desktop or laptop. I want to get a machine with Vista on it, a lot of RAM (preferably 4GB), a high-end graphics card, etc. I want those things mostly for my WPF development. Buying a desktop is definitely cheaper (especially since I already have a nice monitor). But, I'm leaving my current employer soon and will no longer have the laptop they let me use. So if I buy a desktop I won't have the sweet freedom to write my "leisure time" code away from the desk in my apartment. The only solution, though costly, is to buy a top-shelf laptop and then plug my monitor and keyboard into it when at home. I'm concerned that using a "docked" laptop as my regular home PC will be bad for the machine. Is this true? Does running a laptop with the lid closed for hours/days on end cause the machine to get really hot and deteriorate faster? Thanks for any info on this.
:josh: My WPF Blog[^]
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit. - AristotleI guess for me, it would matter only if I could get one with full dual monitor support. For a year or two now though, I have been thinking more in the line of three monitors to be a good choice (same size sitting next to each other), but I doubt any laptops would handle that :)
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