Re: using a laptop as a main machine
Bakul Shah <[email protected]>
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First, a belated thanks for all the responses. Looks like there is a remarkable agreement on the required features! - a long warranty - reliabile - large & hi-res display - long battery life - full size keyboard - cradle/docking station when at your desk - wifi - working suspend/resume richard childers <[email protected]> writes: > There are advantages to desktops, as well as to laptops. True. But for me the balance has tilted in the laptops' favor. In a home, a laptop with an external display/keyboard is far more flexible and easier to manage. Even if you leave it on all the time, my guess is it saves between 100 to 200 W/hr. or about 0.876 to 1.752 Megawatt-hours a year (about $140 and $280 a year for me). Now multiply that 3 to 5 times! Even for a home file/backup/print server I wonder if a desktop is all that good. Its internal disks get too hot, its fans fail, you need a UPS, hard to replace parts etc. Commercially available file servers are not there yet: too slow, too expensive, power hungry. A fast laptop is usually good enough. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message