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I like your super duper cool website. 
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: I'm curious how many CPians use a laptop but not its keyboard, mouse and screen.
I use my laptop as a desktop, with a separate keyboard and mouse, but I use the laptop screen (17") and a 24" panel. The dual screen combo is fantastic.
Marc
Will work for food.
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I've always wanted to be able to use my laptop's 1920x1200 natice screen (it's very sharp and my eyes are [thankfully!] still good!) but have been unable to position the laptop close enough to my full-size keyboard. I even tried crafting a stand from an empty laptop box, but it didn't work out too well.
I'd kill for a laptop that came with a real, full-size (i.e. 20" wide) keyboard!
/ravi
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I still prefer development on desktop machines with a good keyboard and big monitors. For office work (meetings, specs, e-mail), I use a 17" Dell laptop. At home again a desktop - it is hard to find a good laptop under 500 USD
I also have a netbook, but it is really good only for travel. The screen and the keyboard are just too small for productive work.
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Nemanja Trifunovic wrote: also have a netbook, but it is really good only for travel. The screen and the keyboard are just too small for productive work.
but good for gaming
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flash is not real gaming. 
3x12=36
2x12=24
1x12=12
0x12=18
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How do you keep all your data in sync between your computers?
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I use the beast when the comfort of my buttocks is given higher consideration than that of my fingers.
Oh, yeah - and when I need to relocate for some reason or another.
Ramble Initiated:
Observation: The new generation (i.e., my spawn) don't have land-line phones, and similarly (it seems) don't have desktop PCs. I could account for it, to some extent, as a need for mobility. Now, I think it's a lack of appreciation of what it is they're missing.
Then, too, most people don't have as many PCs laying around the house as "We of Code Project" are likely to have.
:Ramble completed
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..these days laptops are powerful enough for anything 
peace & serenity
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My dual GTX 280M work like a charm in my laptop, so I don't see the point of your argument there...
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Yes, but unfortunately NOT ALL laptops are equipped with such powerful GPU...
Bye By(t)e 
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Wow, really??? Thanks for letting me know! I thought ALLLLL laptops had powerful cards...  Seriously I realize that... I' simply pointing out that there ARE laptops out there that CAN run powerful games or multimedia apps out there. LOL!!!
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For a given price, you can always buy desktop pc that is faster than a laptop, especially in terms of disk speeds. This makes a significant difference to build times during development. So I reluctantly use our "high spec" laptops for development only when forced to develop off site.
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I regularly use a desktop PC through RDP: enough power, but the flexibility to work at any place that has an internet connection.
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Try connecting 4 screens to your laptop without much hassle or problems or extra external hardware
Yes laptops have gotten to be close to being as powerful (at least the decant one's and not the 'throw away' laptops that go for 300€) but I still prefer the desktop.
More scalability and such.
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If you are doing development, that is not too hard these days, as long as you are not looking for great graphics performance (or even good...). They have some not back USB and whatever-the-new-PCMCIA-replacment-is-called dongles for it.
Opacity, the new Transparency.
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Yeah but there crap 
Good for displaying only text and such but when your doing something even slightly more graphic they can't cope and only your main screen is able to display them.
I almost always have something graphical open (it's my home pc that has 4 screens) so...
I'm not saying laptops aren't useful but in my opinion they'll never replace the desktop.
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My notebook is my main computer. I don't even have a desktop computer at home for some long five years now (and don't miss it either).
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If they had a display .... Notebook display quality has dropped dramatically in last two years without any options. You could get ThinkPad with IPS 15" 1600x1200 panel and contrast ratio better than 500:1 five years ago. Now only horrible TN panels with poor contrast ratio below 150:1 are available which might be good for a mobile phone but definitely NOT for a computer I should have use for several hours per day. Lets talk about real monitors with S-PVA or H-IPS panel, 12 bit LUT and backlight uniformity compensation 
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For me its about productivity. On a desktop with a normal sized keyboard and display I typically churn out 300 to 1500 c++ lines per day when coding. On a laptop this is cut down to 100 to 300. The keyboard and display are both too small. The hard disk (unless it is a high end SSD) is too slow and the mouse sucks.
John
modified on Monday, November 30, 2009 9:00 AM
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I don't have a laptop. Never really needed them. If ever get a desktop it will be for work, never for gaming. Even for work, the price compared to desktop is too high for the same performance. So, only if I really need one.
And the mouse and keyboard suck. It takes forever to point at stuff with the little pad of the notebook, and misclicks are a common event. The keys are usually too small, leading to many mistyping. If you atach external devices, it defeats part of the laptop's purpose of mobility (you need a good flat surface for an external mouse or keyboard) that you don't always have available.
I have a desktop at home and a desktop at work. I'm good.
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It is not about computer power, but comfort and productivity. The only way a laptop comes close to a desktop when it comes to productivity is to use it in a desktop manner - with external keyboard and monitors.
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Long as you don't mind the noise and small screen
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