Workstation: Laptop vs. Desktop (+OS)

What computing device do you use primarily?

  • Desktop

    Votes: 23 35.9%

  • Laptop

    Votes: 40 62.5%

  • Tablet

    Votes: 1 1.6%

  • Other

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    64
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Out of interest to see what everyone uses daily at work, I thought I'd ask this.

So what do you use primarily? A laptop or a desktop?

What OS is your primary OS on your primary workstation?

(Request for a poll to be made has been sent).
 
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Laptop, connected to one screen mostly. 2 if I'm really busy,
Windows 8 on my Laptop. Server 2008 R2 on 1 VM.

Work laptop has Windows 7 but use that because of work policy and the need to change my password.
90% of the time, I use my personal laptop.

Regarding the Poll, ask a mod to make one. Think morkhans manages this portion of the forum. Or prod TheLibrarian, McD or bwana.
 
Work machine:
I5 With 12GB RAM and Sapphire HD7870 GPU - Desktop

Primary: Ubuntu, have a Windows XP and Windows 7 VB running for experimenting, various programs.
I also have another machine I use for other stuffs at work.
 
Ask a mod for a poll. Laptop Mac os x most of the time but windows desktop at least a few hours a day as well as Linux at least twice a week
 
I7 Dell xps laptop, with extra screen. Win 8 and putty sessions for Linux dev
 
Windows desktop (2x), primarily connected via putty to Linux boxes. 10 monitors (there are various processes I need to monitor, and I need several high res full screen images for visualization too).
 
cguy said:
Windows desktop (2x), primarily connected via putty to Linux boxes. 10 monitors (there are various processes I need to monitor, and I need several high res full screen images for visualization too).
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Pic :erm:
Can only imagine what that looks like.

Industry as well ?
 
Dell xps with 23" + wireless keyboard (same at home, logitech unify), windows 8.1, vagrant vm's
 
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Office (Mon to Wed)
Dell XPS 15 L521X hooked up to an LG 23" LED. Microsoft Comfort 5000 wireless keyboard and mouse.

Home Office (Thu and Fri)
Dell XPS 15 L521X hooked up to a Dell 23" LED. Microsoft Comfort 5000 wireless keyboard and mouse.

And when in the house coding in the lounge or bedroom I use a Dell XPS 13 L321X gen 4 i7 touchscreen. I get just under 10 hours battery in balanced mode and around 6 in high performance. Flipping awesome machine this.

All notebooks are driven by mSata (XPS 15 has 128GB and XPS 13 has 256GB) primary with the office XPS 15 having a 32GB mSata and 256GB SSD. I like my machines to sing :)

Got wifey an XPS 13 too.
 
Mike Smit said:
Office (Mon to Wed)
Dell XPS 15 L521X hooked up to an LG 23" LED. Microsoft Comfort 5000 wireless keyboard and mouse.

Home Office (Thu and Fri)
Dell XPS 15 L521X hooked up to a Dell 23" LED. Microsoft Comfort 5000 wireless keyboard and mouse.

And when in the house coding in the lounge or bedroom I use a Dell XPS 13 L321X gen 4 i7 touchscreen. I get just under 10 hours battery in balanced mode and around 6 in high performance. Flipping awesome machine this.

All notebooks are driven by mSata (XPS 15 has 128GB and XPS 13 has 256GB) primary with the office XPS 15 having a 32GB mSata and 256GB SSD. I like my machines to sing :)

Got wifey an XPS 13 too.
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Not using 2 screens and the 32" anymore at home?
 
Pho3nix said:
Not using 2 screens and the 32" anymore at home?
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I went full time in Feb and was 5 days a week until I got the dept sorted. I was not using my home office at all so sold the PC and subdivided my office. Half became a gym with the 32" mounted to the wall in front of the equipment. The 2 23" screens went to the top of the cupboard.
Now I am sorted at the office I am working at home 2 days a week and afternoons Mon to Wed. So XPS 15 lives in the home office and XPS 13 in the house. Got a Dell screen for the home office and original 2 still in the cupboard.

I am in the process of collecting the parts for another high end desktop so may go back to a triple screen setup like before, but not the 32". That has been lost to the home gym now. Sigh...
 
I use Linux on my laptop during the day for work and Windows on my gaming machine in the evenings.
 
Work (academic and software dev mostly):

1. ivy i5, 16Gb Ram, 2x23", windows/elementaryos. 2 VMs which are mission critical, 2 others which are used whenever necessary. Suffices for normal office work and computations now and then.
2. (Forcing myself to) Note 10.1, bluetooth keyboard and mouse, linked to 23" over MHL (slight delay). Normal office work takes some getting used to, but its ok-ish. Computations then done on 80 core, 80GB grid.
 
Dell XPS 15, Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse, 23" Samsung LCD, Windows 8.1, running a VirtualBox VM (typically a Windows OS, depending on what I'm working on).
Dell Latitude E7240 - Research, reading, Sublime Text editing
 
Pho3nix said:
Pic :erm:
Can only imagine what that looks like.

Industry as well ?
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Finance. The config is 4x 30" 4MP, 2x 24" 1920x1080, and 4x 20" 1600x1200 displays. As you may guess, this grew organically :). It's powered by 3 Nvidia quadros IIRC.
 
Desktop with Windows 8.1

Laptop (x2) with Fedora and Mint
 
Laptop with external screens (depending on where I am on the day)

Windows 8.1
 
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