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a new mid-top tier laptop; don't go cheap. don't go expensive.
2x27inch monitors mid-top tier; good quality like Griff mentioned.
dual display port docking station.
this has been my setup for my remote work for over 6 years now.
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I suggest you take a good look at Dell XPS range of laptops (Or XPS desktops if the machine will never travel.)
I am not wrong. I am just different!
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Maxed out XPS15 laptop here, but bought a little over 4 years ago.
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I've been looking at those
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Whatever you buy, try to get a machine with a M.2 NVMe SSD. They are much faster than traditional SSDs.
I am not wrong. I am just different!
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Well, I do like Latitudes.
The travel and age well.
But do get a docking station and a few monitors, and a proper keyboard - mouse combo. I agree very much with OG on that.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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At work our almost our entire department use MSI gaming laptops. I like them so much I have bought two of them for myself to use at home. The last one I got was a screaming deal. It has a 512GB SSD, 1TB HD, 17-inch display, 16GB RAM, and 2070 video card plus it weighs five pounds. Its power brick is heavier than it is. In the USA it is well within your budget but I don't know what its cost for you would be. I got mine at http://www.newegg.com[^]. I highly recommend them.
BTW - I do HPC work with CUDA and the video card works great for me. That was a major factor for getting this one. That and the cost.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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I read thru alot of the replies.
Synopsis. Everyone works differently. Imagine that.
I like my little Samsung Notebook 9. Hooked up to a docking station with an extra monitor and things are nice. I RDP to various work machines as I need to. It just works and it has a huge battery and a big enough for me screen when I am on the road I can still work pretty darn well.
note unlike this. Notebook 9 Pro (512 GB) Windows Laptops - NP930MBE-K04US | Samsung US[^]
Just my .02
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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Booooo! 
I am not wrong. I am just different!
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGH!!!!!!! 
Don't scare us like that!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
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It'll happen, usually, every five or six years, and that's only November!
There are eleven other months that can slip this in on you.
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☠ Mwaaah Haaah Haaaa! ☠
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modified 13-Nov-20 8:50am.
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I stopped reading at "It's Friday" and had the complete opposite reaction.
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you scared me. phew. my life flashed before my eyes. 
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It's depressing, but actually the next day is a sadder day.
yuk, yuk yuk
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It took men an extra half a second to get that one 
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You and your OCD backups  - good way to be though - do you kick the backups off manually or are they scheduled ? good subject for an article methinks
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I do them manually, with Google reminders.
The actual media are air-gapped from the machine so they have to be physically plugged in to backup onto. Just a little safer that way ... but removes the scheduling element which would be handy I admit.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Since you extolled the virtue of AOMEI Backupper I started using it and do exactly as you do with air-gapped backup disks only plugged in when I manually run it. It is simple and works well - including being able to retrieve stuff I accidentally deleted.
Automatic scheduling makes it easy to forget - and easy to miss if there is any problem. Manual (with scheduled reminders) keeps you focused.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Jamie xx - Gosh[^]
@David-ONeil is on a roll!
Last week's SOTW was his recommendation from a week before and this week's SOTW is his recommendation from last week.
I really love this song.
Jamie xx is part of The xx, who are best known for the intro to one of their albums (with 1 hour extended versions on YouTube  ).
This song is from Jamie xx as a solo artist.
It's electronic and the first minute or so makes you think this is going to be some gangsta sh*t, but then it gets kind of hypnotic electro in the second part.
The video is apparently some political statement against "cultural appropriation" (as a phenomenon), but since the only lyrics are "oh my gosh" you wouldn't hear it in the music.
Even though the song is a couple of years old, it's one of the best songs I heard in 2020.
It's been literally on repeat and I've listened to it at least 30 times, but probably more, since Saturday night
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Doubt I can do a three-fer, following those two great songs. Besides them, the only new stuff has been listening to Underworld. I did not know they had a bunch of good tracks I never came across before, like Spikee and Moon In Water.
Before, the Underworld tracks I'd heard hadn't make me think much of them, but those changed my view.
And both of those playlists are pretty good.
PS - Just came across Ellen Allien. Had never heard of her before, either. Not bad!
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I loved Underworld, got all their albums from dubnobasswithmyheadman up to Barking (and A Collection and Anthology 1992-2012).
Kind of stopped following them after that, although I still listened to Barbara... on Spotify a couple of times.
Oblivion With Bells is a great album too.
David O'Neil wrote: Just came across Ellen Allien. Had never heard of her before, either. Not bad!
Seconded!
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Today in the Insider: Microsoft urges users to stop using phone-based multi-factor authentication | ZDNet[^]
So they're telling me to use app-based authentication, which I'm already doing.
Now I'm using the Microsoft Authenticator for Microsoft, Google's Authenticator for Google (yes, those apps have the same name), my DigiD authenticator for government logins and some other authenticator that I need to login at a customer's... And of course every bank has its own app, including authenticator, as well.
Are all these different authenticators going to be a problem, besides usability?
Can we just standardize on one?
I feel very safe, not knowing which app I need to login. If I don't know maybe hackers don't know either 
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I thought most were interchangeable 
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