A few months ago I pulled together some parts from our computer graveyard. A new motherboard got me where I needed to be to have a working desktop at work.
It is a 2.4ghz Core2 machine with 2 gigs of ram.
I installed Ubuntu as the host OS and then installed WinXP via VirtualBox for the various windows software that I need.
I hadn't used Linux as my full desktop OS for some time. I've supported quite a number of linux servers with various different purposes. I now don't know how I managed doing my job without a desktop. I used my laptop for most everything, and that was kind of a problem because I'd have a hard drive cloning or something and I'd need to leave. I'd have to leave my laptop or start again later.
Laptops are great, but you just can't beat a Desktop you can leave doing your work while you're out. _________________ Blargle Flarg Bergah Merg
Wed Sep 16, 2009 5:12 pm
blu
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I use a desktop because none of my laptops will output 2560x1600
Wed Sep 16, 2009 5:36 pm
TehDanMan
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Elitist Snotbag.
=P _________________ Blargle Flarg Bergah Merg
Wed Sep 16, 2009 6:20 pm
LightningCrash
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Desktops are great as a landing pad, that's my theory anyway.
Thu Sep 17, 2009 5:35 am
Nikola
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I don't think I could ever have a laptop as my "primary" machine at all except for an office job. I did work on a nice laptop for awhile that then hooked into a 24" at work for dual mons, but I gave that up for a 24" iMac + 24" after 6 months or so.
It was nice being able to take my work home but having to leave the desktop there was generally a better feeling _________________ Failure is just success rounded down.
Thu Sep 17, 2009 6:10 am
Shinare
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I with the others on screen size. I use a desktop at work for multi-monitor. I can't do my job effectively without two or more monitors. _________________ For with what measure you measure it will be measured to you.
Thu Sep 17, 2009 10:34 am
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