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What's to say those laptops aren't supplied with 2 large monitors, a dock, an ergo keyboard and a nice mouse? The advantage of laptops is it gives you the flexi
by bruceboughton 16y ago
What's to say those laptops aren't supplied with 2 large monitors, a dock, an ergo keyboard and a nice mouse? The advantage of laptops is it gives you the flexibility. You can get beefy laptops.
- viraptor 16y agoWell... you certainly could do that. Then again, you're not as flexible, since your desktop gets messed up once you disconnect from 2 screens. I'm pretty sure that a sensible developer's desktop + sensible developer's laptop cost about the same as one beefy dockable laptop which can handle 2 screens. Seriously beefy laptops tend to be not very portable unfortunately because of the size + weight. (I do not consider laptops above 17'' portable anymore - if it doesn't fit in a backpack, it's too large) Also working on the laptop all the time will kill your battery (or you might risk leaving it out for a long time and discharging it completely) - which breaks the flexibility idea again. Plus, If I had a desktop and a laptop, I'd just use synergy to have 3 screens available ;) Laptop screens are perfect for having terminals with `tail -F some logs` quickly available ;)
- bruceboughton 16y agoThe tools around docking are pretty good. Much better to have that than 2 separate dev environments (laptop and desktop). In terms of bulk, my laptop is a 13" so not very bulky. It could be a bit more powerful but the main problem is the HDD (not SSD) and the awful corporate virus scan.