So reading the editorial in this month's PC Pro and finding I agreed with the editor on his apparent preference for desktop systems I thought I'd ask what you preferred to use, not in terms of OS but in terms of form factor.
I've had many desktops and notebooks over the years ... my first PC was an Amstrad PC1512 which I upgraded, then an adapted Compaq (it was adapted because Compaq did what I've seen so many vendors do since, changed things so you were tied into their brand), went through 386SX's, 486DX's, Pentium I, II's, III's, 4's (along with various AMD's [SPIT]) to my current systems (an IBM x206 central server soon to be replaced by a Xeon 771 dual core/dual processor DELL workstation which will virtualise the server function and a series of socket 775 dual core/core-2-duo based full & mini-towers). I also have an inherited laptop (AMD [SPIT) and my work laptop ... the whole is configured for single central logon (Windows AD domain) and documents, media streaming & printing are all hosted centrally.
Anyway my notebooks and servers are all purchased (I seem to recall physically building one of my first servers, Samba to begin with but NT4 later but since then all bought though usually upgraded) but my desktop/towers all built/upgraded over the years and that has been a conscious decision on my part because I genuinely don't believe that a laptop can be as good as a desktop without paying at least twice as much to gain the same capability (and some desktop capability can never be realistically achieved by a notebook). So, whilst I see the value of laptops, I tend to be ambivalent about them and rarely, if ever, bother reading about them in PC magazines but (sad and geeky though it may be) I get excited about a new piece of desktop kit (graphics card, CPU, memory, hard disks, array cards whatever) so yeah ... very much a desktop person and very much a home builder and upgrader (even if first power up gives me the screaming meamy's).
So what do you prefer?
Kyu
I've had many desktops and notebooks over the years ... my first PC was an Amstrad PC1512 which I upgraded, then an adapted Compaq (it was adapted because Compaq did what I've seen so many vendors do since, changed things so you were tied into their brand), went through 386SX's, 486DX's, Pentium I, II's, III's, 4's (along with various AMD's [SPIT]) to my current systems (an IBM x206 central server soon to be replaced by a Xeon 771 dual core/dual processor DELL workstation which will virtualise the server function and a series of socket 775 dual core/core-2-duo based full & mini-towers). I also have an inherited laptop (AMD [SPIT) and my work laptop ... the whole is configured for single central logon (Windows AD domain) and documents, media streaming & printing are all hosted centrally.
Anyway my notebooks and servers are all purchased (I seem to recall physically building one of my first servers, Samba to begin with but NT4 later but since then all bought though usually upgraded) but my desktop/towers all built/upgraded over the years and that has been a conscious decision on my part because I genuinely don't believe that a laptop can be as good as a desktop without paying at least twice as much to gain the same capability (and some desktop capability can never be realistically achieved by a notebook). So, whilst I see the value of laptops, I tend to be ambivalent about them and rarely, if ever, bother reading about them in PC magazines but (sad and geeky though it may be) I get excited about a new piece of desktop kit (graphics card, CPU, memory, hard disks, array cards whatever) so yeah ... very much a desktop person and very much a home builder and upgrader (even if first power up gives me the screaming meamy's).
So what do you prefer?
Kyu
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