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Originally Posted by CRussel
Even my laptops have always had separate keyboard, mouse, and monitor. And I now have wireless kbd and mouse that travel with me. However, you mostly get what you pay for in the PC world. It's a highly competitive business, and if you insist on the cheapest, you get it.
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I've used external keyboard, mouse, and monitor with laptops. Fine for home use, but less fine when traveling (though I still prefer an actual mouse to a touchpad.)
But efforts to shave pennies bite in various ways. Several system failures here over the years have been the result of failed power supplies. An old friend built a
high end system, with 8 core processor, 64GB of RAM, SSD, and other goodies. He carefully got a high end power supply that was normally picked by gamers precisely to avoid that issue. (He's not a gamer. His system is explicitly designed to suck down huge open source repositories currently in a distributed version control system like CVS and convert them to something like git to ease development and maintenance down the road.)
When you custom build a desktop, you can pick and choose best of breed components. Laptops are more restricted.
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Dennis