What do you prefer Laptop or Desktop?

mothered · 07-20-2018, 04:41 PM

(07-20-2018, 04:11 PM)reGEN Wrote: My laptop is from 2011 with a probably really old i7

At a guess, I'd say It's somewhere In the range of the 2nd generation.

Vultra · 07-20-2018, 05:46 PM

(07-20-2018, 04:38 PM)Ukulele Wrote: Desktop pc for working but when i go somewhere else i need a laptop obv ^^ But then i just use it for videos and programming

So, if you had to pick one, which one would it be?

Ukulele · 07-20-2018, 05:47 PM

(07-20-2018, 05:46 PM)Mimiakira Wrote:
(07-20-2018, 04:38 PM)Ukulele Wrote: Desktop pc for working but when i go somewhere else i need a laptop obv ^^ But then i just use it for videos and programming

So, if you had to pick one, which one would it be?

Desktop for sure Smile

Vultra · 07-20-2018, 05:57 PM

(07-20-2018, 04:11 PM)reGEN Wrote:
(07-20-2018, 03:43 PM)Mimiakira Wrote:
(07-20-2018, 02:46 PM)reGEN Wrote: Laptop for working/studying on the go. Don't game much but the games I have work fine on my current laptops so I'm good, no need for a desktop... yet...

What type of laptop specs do you have?

My laptop is from 2011 with a probably really old i7, 8 GB RAM and a trash mobile nVidia GPU.

Extra ram and you should be fine haha. Windows OS?

Ed_Horace · 07-20-2018, 07:00 PM

desktop ..;laptops suck big time

reGEN · 07-21-2018, 01:24 AM

(07-20-2018, 05:57 PM)Mimiakira Wrote:
(07-20-2018, 04:11 PM)reGEN Wrote:
(07-20-2018, 03:43 PM)Mimiakira Wrote: What type of laptop specs do you have?

My laptop is from 2011 with a probably really old i7, 8 GB RAM and a trash mobile nVidia GPU.

Extra ram and you should be fine haha. Windows OS?

I've never really had issues with running out of RAM but I think it mainly lies with my dirty GPU. Yeah I used to run Windows on this.

BurritoBeans · 07-21-2018, 01:57 AM

I don't really game that much anymore, when I do it's retro stuff or indie games, so laptops have become leagues better apart in most-any area outside of the occasional workstation tasks that my desktop still exists for.

Most of my day-to-day stuff is working on farm equipment because the computers are horrible on them and usually the reason for downtime. We used to carry a desktop in a truck, drive from point to point, and use that to figure out what was going on - it was a pain and the hardware wouldn't last that long. Nowadays since I'm the one who does this stuff I've just switched to a XFR that cost me $250 or so on eBay - I can put in the saddle bag on my ATV, drive to wherever I need to, and it's taken everything from dust to ten-foot falls to being left in freezing rain for a night. Past that I just like the convenience for school, I have a few Thinkpads that make it so I don't have to rely on the (usually unreliable) lab computers and let me use the software which I like.

mothered · 07-21-2018, 05:31 AM

(07-21-2018, 01:24 AM)reGEN Wrote: I've never really had issues with running out of RAM

It depends on one's overall usability and If yours does not Involve memory-Intensive tasks (now and Into the foreseeable future), there's point In adding extra sticks. That's provided the MOBO can accommodate It.

I continue to multitask and have simultaneous VMs running, hence Ram Is of utmost Importance. Here's my available memory with 6 VMs active and 50+ browser tabs open.

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Blink · 07-23-2018, 12:37 AM

Theoretically desktop, but practically laptop.
I prefer desktops because you don't end up with stupid issues like YouTube causing your CPU to be at 80°C, but I move around too much to stay with a desktop. So, practically I end up using my overheating Macbook.

On a related note, I'm considering making a distributed load-balancing OS or framework that allows me to distribute my computing across every computer I have (or I can just use an existing one like Inferno, but I'm too OCD to not make everything myself); that way I can access all my data from everywhere, but not have some of the issues that remote/'cloud' computing has (namely graphics latency, I'll have all graphical processing threads run locally).
In that case, I guess the answer would be both, since the tasks would be distributed.

Vultra · 07-23-2018, 02:21 AM

(07-23-2018, 12:37 AM)Ender Wrote: Theoretically desktop, but practically laptop.
I prefer desktops because you don't end up with stupid issues like YouTube causing your CPU to be at 80°C, but I move around too much to stay with a desktop. So, practically I end up using my overheating Macbook.

On a related note, I'm considering making a distributed load-balancing OS or framework that allows me to distribute my computing across every computer I have (or I can just use an existing one like Inferno, but I'm too OCD to not make everything myself); that way I can access all my data from everywhere, but not have some of the issues that remote/'cloud' computing has (namely graphics latency, I'll have all graphical processing threads run locally).
In that case, I guess the answer would be both, since the tasks would be distributed.

That's the one thing I dislike with macbooks since, I've never had an issue with any other but, overheating on a macbook does get pretty scary.
Have you tried the fan cooler that the macbook sits on?