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In the office and at home I have external keyboard, mouse and an extra monitor. That said, we all spend time working in different locations including on client sites, so having a good laptop is more than worth the extra cost.
veni bibi saltavi
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OK Nagy, buy the PS4 Pro in order to play Persona 5. 
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Where laptops have a big problem is drive bays,
next yes the graphics is good if it cooks it's expensive and choices limited.
Built-in keyboard, again it's good but is it set out the way you like it? Built in display, ditto.
Multi display is possible but finicky, same for direct plug USB and connectivity in general.
The box is limiting for dev, and you're stuck with only the plugs it came with.
Installing Signature...
Do not switch off your computer.
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Depending on the job you do the best is a laptop and a native docking station...
You can go to your customer's place without having to synchronize/configure/be_sure_to_have_the_same_software_version anything and when you are at your office you get automatically connected to everything using the DS.
Once I did this I've never looked back.
But of course, all this means you need a high end laptop...
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..my desktop is based on a laptop-CPU, has modest (onboard) graphic capabilites and still has no problems at all with WarCraft or Heroes of the Storm.
If your application is graphic-heavy, then I would assume you'd need something that is DirectX compatible - as that would be the way to optimize graphic output.
The i3 CPU may sound a bit slow, but during games that's not really noticable; found that its mostly memory and the hd-speed that was usually the bottleneck in my particular setup. So the desktop has a SSD card and 16GB memory. Yes, VS needs a lot of it, and it tends to read/write a lot.
That setup is now probably 4 years old, and still outperforms many "full" desktops.
So, you'd have to ask yourself how much of a bottleneck your graphics are, before thinking of optimizing it; otherwise you risc optimizing a part that may not have any impact at all.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: otherwise you risc optimizing a part that may not have any impact at all.
I don't think Nagy would want to go that deep into optimization 
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Well, I'm using one of these bad boys[^] as my primary dev machine and I absolutely love it. Finally, recompiling C++ code is a relatively painless operation.
This space for rent
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Another thing to look at would be external graphics enclosures. I just ordered myself a new laptop that has everything except the high end graphics card. Instead I'll be ordering myself one, most likely the HP Omen model since it has room for another HD as well, for gaming and serious graphics work.
Unfortunately that does cause the price to spike pretty quick as the enclosures are 3-400$ plus the graphics card.
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Dell - I will never buy from them again, either with mine or the company's money.
Looked at Lenovo, but not that one.
veni bibi saltavi
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A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of gin? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Can't believe nobody asked if it was a drinking game. You provide the Gin and I'm in. 
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At my company we have several MSI gamer-type laptops. They have similar specifications as the Razers do. They work really well and are very capable machines. Their only downside is they use windows 10. I am not impressed with that at all.
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Large herd of kangaroo (8)
Macropod
Large - macro
pod - herd
kangaroo is a macropod
modified 24-Nov-17 6:36am.
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Flashmob?
A "Mob" is a group of kangaroo...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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No, sorry. I thought this was an easy one, looks like I might be up again Monday 
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Oh, bugger - I stopped trying as I thought OG was right! Now I've a got a meeting starting soon 
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I was just guessing TBH - the "mob" part fitted, but the rest was the only eight letter word ending with "mob" I could think of... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Hey! You're not supposed to post the answer til 1pm!
I was just about to get that! 
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nah it's 3 hours, always has been since DD done it. The WSO format was my inception originally - so my rules.
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Far be it from me to get involved, but OG has the rules on his profile page, and it says 4 hours there...
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Yeah god knows why he did that - I think he likes to make sure the OTD's carry on, but I wouldn't bother taking much notice of them the thing doesn't even need rules.
Somebody called Dalek Dave used to set these daily, back then if we didn't solve it in 3 hours then he 'won'.
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