11-18-2008, 10:21 AM | #31 | |
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hm. between you and busybookworm i'm torn. i was actually feeling rather convinced by his post... of course, this whole discussion is moot ; i'm about to replace / upgrade my tower (it's overdue...), which means that it's completely out of the question to buy any other computer in the forseeable future. i'm not made of money. |
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11-18-2008, 10:35 AM | #32 |
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Many people love the freedom of a laptop, and I can't fault them on that... I just don't care for them... All the proprietary parts... (Stops thinking about it to avoid raising my blood pressure )
That happened somewhere in the late 90s, friend of a friend deal. I maintained his home network and all his systems. I went over that evening and ran late setting stuff up and just left all my gear (and laptop) there to come back the following morning. I waited around all morning for a call to head over, eventually I called and found out the house was raided. When I found out the charges I didn't even bother claiming my gear. Since I was smart and didn't have anything personal on the laptop (and wasn't registered) I figured I'd just write it off as a learning experience. Not that I was at all connected to what he did, but I didn't want any confusion on that issue, lol... -MJ |
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11-18-2008, 10:43 AM | #33 | |
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actually, the whole "proprietary parts" thing is part of the reason i don't have a laptop yet... my current configuration is custom built, as will be my next tower. i can change a hard drive or optical drive myself, and i regularly do. i can add RAM myself. i successfully changed one of the fans recently. i'll have the new one built by someone else (i've never installed a proc or mb yet and i'd rather let someone else do that) but i'm planning to keep some of the elements i already have (dvd burner, one of the two hard drives, disquette drive...), and put them in myself when i get it home. i feel a bit frustrated by the non-customisable aspect of portables. plus, i'm a webdesigner. i need a *good* portable, if i get one, with a good screen. they're still far pricier than the equivalent in destop size. and as i said, i'm not made of money. nonetheless, it does have advantages and i'm sure i will *eventually* get one, and it will be useful for me (even just for client meetings alone). it's really more a question of "when" than "whether". but "when" is still very abstract... |
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11-18-2008, 12:54 PM | #34 | |
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While I love desktops for their custom ability and Frexibility, not to mention the price to power ratio, I hate being tied down to one place. As I'm travelling 3-4 months of the year, I need to be mobile. So for me paying extra for a reasonably powerful but portable machine is the price of my lifestyle. The Times i've had a Desktop available (usually work Related) While i've liked the Power (Custom Editing Machine) The weight and peripherals made it quiet unwieldy, and more often then not I carried my laptop for the day to day work, just using the Desktop for the Heavy duty processing. The Security is I agree a concern, But I'm usually more worried about people losing their phones or Flash drives with data on it then losing their Laptops. Quote:
Well laptops while being mainly proprietary, have started to make it easier to upgrade or replace some of the parts like Memory, Hard Drives, etc. It varies form Company to company, with some like Dell making it easy for you to reach most of the parts. to some like Sony which is quiet the opposite. As for the cost, well, as I said you pay for the privilege of being portable. Still, if you don't need the latest and greatest you can find quiet powerful machines for quiet reasonable prices. Also, If you get a reasonable powerful machine, you could always use it as a desktop replacement. Just hook up a couple of extra monitors and your external Keyboard and mouse, and you've got a comfortable system for office use, while still being mobile |
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I Test a lot of the Different Video Editing suits as well as Video converters, mainly to test out some specific features to see whether or not its worth upgrading or buying the full version. Those demo's or trial versions are often the worst for leaving junk behind, and as I usually work off an external USB or firewire drive, where based on what research i've done Virtulisation sofware has limited support. |
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VMWare handles USB 2.0, as for Firewire I'm not certain... Googling looks like you just mount it in the host OS and mount a new HD in the VM. I'm not certain how the transfer speed or latency would be affected by that. My recommendation, download it and give it a try. If it works good for you, come up with a new clean build and populate that with your must haves and VMWare. Image that, and party on....
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you could have different virtual machines, running Various different OS's and different versions of the browsers, allowing you to test for specific cirmstances, if necessary. |
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The only problem is that I'm going to be in places with very limited or slow connectivity . So I'll need to download the heavy stiff well in advance. |
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