Digging my new setup at work...
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Since I started at my current place of employment awhile back, I've had a Toshiba laptop that was OK but not wonderful. I pretty much left it plugged into the docking station, as my home machines are better suited to what I want to do, and I can remote in through those. But lately I was getting really tired of waiting, and waiting, and waiting any time I wanted to do more than one thing at once. The RAM wasn't too bad (about 3/4 GB) but the processor was a tired 933 Mhz. Didn't take much in the way of background tasks to slow things to a crawl...
So the other day I pinged a friend in desktop support and asked what the specs were for desktop boxes being rolled out. Since I don't go mobile much, I figured it wasn't going to be a significant issue logistically compared to the gain in processing power. I found out that the laptops were significantly faster though, and I got placed on the upgrade list post-haste. As of last Friday, my life just got a whole lot better... :)
I now have a Thinkpad, dual processor running at 2.1 Ghz, 1 GB of RAM, blah, blah, blah. Still not what I have at home, but a huge upgrade to what I had on my desk at work. Even better is that I set it up with a dual monitor arrangement. I have a flat screen as my main monitor, but I'm leaving the laptop lid open and using that screen as the second. I've done dual before, but never really found it that accommodating to what I was working on.
Until now...
Doing web dev in Domino is really nice now... I have Designer running on the flat screen, and my browser is over on the laptop screen. I make a change in the CSS file, save, slide over, refresh the page, and see the results. No switching tabs, no moving things around... Just instant gratification.
I'm really sold on "dual-ism" now, and wouldn't want to go back to a single monitor for anything. I was hoping to get a flat screen for home use to replace the clunky old monitor I currently have. Now I'm starting to wonder if I can fit them both on my desk... :)
Since I started at my current place of employment awhile back, I've had a Toshiba laptop that was OK but not wonderful. I pretty much left it plugged into the docking station, as my home machines are better suited to what I want to do, and I can remote in through those. But lately I was getting really tired of waiting, and waiting, and waiting any time I wanted to do more than one thing at once. The RAM wasn't too bad (about 3/4 GB) but the processor was a tired 933 Mhz. Didn't take much in the way of background tasks to slow things to a crawl...
So the other day I pinged a friend in desktop support and asked what the specs were for desktop boxes being rolled out. Since I don't go mobile much, I figured it wasn't going to be a significant issue logistically compared to the gain in processing power. I found out that the laptops were significantly faster though, and I got placed on the upgrade list post-haste. As of last Friday, my life just got a whole lot better... :)
I now have a Thinkpad, dual processor running at 2.1 Ghz, 1 GB of RAM, blah, blah, blah. Still not what I have at home, but a huge upgrade to what I had on my desk at work. Even better is that I set it up with a dual monitor arrangement. I have a flat screen as my main monitor, but I'm leaving the laptop lid open and using that screen as the second. I've done dual before, but never really found it that accommodating to what I was working on.
Until now...
Doing web dev in Domino is really nice now... I have Designer running on the flat screen, and my browser is over on the laptop screen. I make a change in the CSS file, save, slide over, refresh the page, and see the results. No switching tabs, no moving things around... Just instant gratification.
I'm really sold on "dual-ism" now, and wouldn't want to go back to a single monitor for anything. I was hoping to get a flat screen for home use to replace the clunky old monitor I currently have. Now I'm starting to wonder if I can fit them both on my desk... :)
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Although I *will* admit to being curious about the shock protection...
Posted by Duffbert At 07:25:53 On 01/11/2006 | - Website - |
What ThinkPad did you get??? They are they best, you know... you'll know one day when your foot hooks into the cable and it falls a meter to the floor and still works.
Posted by Adeleida At 22:26:48 On 31/10/2006 | - Website - |
Posted by Duffbert At 17:49:11 On 07/11/2006 | - Website - |
Posted by Curtis Avery At 15:20:48 On 07/11/2006 | - Website - |