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I can't really say what will work for you, but here's how I do it: our company only has laptops, so my work (web dev) machine is a laptop. In the office though

by Seldaek 16y ago

I can't really say what will work for you, but here's how I do it: our company only has laptops, so my work (web dev) machine is a laptop. In the office though I've a 24" monitor, along with external keyboard and mouse. Essentially the laptop is just a portable cpu when I'm sitting in the office. The nice thing is that I can take it with me in meeting rooms, go code on a sofa for a while, work in the train or wherever I feel like. It just takes 10seconds to unplug stuff and I'm good to go. At home I have the same keyboard/mouse/monitor, backed by a aging desktop machine, but I can still plug the laptop in the whole system fairly easily. The monitor has two inputs so there is a spare cable for the laptop, and all the external stuff is plugged into the monitor which has one unique usb cable that I can plug either in the desktop (using an extender sitting on the desk) or in the laptop. For data syncing, well the code sits in git repositories on machines that are accessible at any time. The rest is mostly provided by google apps or Dropbox-synced for the rare things that can't be cloud apps. I even have applications sitting with all their data in dropbox, so that I don't have to replicate settings changes between machines, and also for backup purposes.

kayoone 16y ago
Being able to work anywhere is cool, but id argue that its easier if you have a second small laptop that you can just grab and go somewhere then to unplug all the clutter from your laptop first, rearranging windows and whatnot. This would require that the small Laptop is powered on and has active syncing (via dropbox for example) with the workstartion to continue where you left off though. Since Cloud Apps and Data syncing is much easier today, it might better to use the right tool for the job and not a single machine for everything which then is a compromise in either field.
- Seldaek 16y ago
  Well I work on a 14" dell machine that is light enough (~2kg) to carry around. With SSD and 4GB RAM it is also sufficiently fast. As for unplugging stuff, there is USB, Audio, Network, DisplayPort, Power.. 5 cables to pull out, it's really a matter of seconds, but if you care about that you can get a dock and then you just have to grab the laptop and go. Rearranging windows isn't an issue if you run most things fullscreen.

by Seldaek 16y ago

kayoone 16y ago

Being able to work anywhere is cool, but id argue that its easier if you have a second small laptop that you can just grab and go somewhere then to unplug all the clutter from your laptop first, rearranging windows and whatnot. This would require that the small Laptop is powered on and has active syncing (via dropbox for example) with the workstartion to continue where you left off though. Since Cloud Apps and Data syncing is much easier today, it might better to use the right tool for the job and not a single machine for everything which then is a compromise in either field.

Seldaek 16y ago
Well I work on a 14" dell machine that is light enough (~2kg) to carry around. With SSD and 4GB RAM it is also sufficiently fast. As for unplugging stuff, there is USB, Audio, Network, DisplayPort, Power.. 5 cables to pull out, it's really a matter of seconds, but if you care about that you can get a dock and then you just have to grab the laptop and go. Rearranging windows isn't an issue if you run most things fullscreen.