My company provides most employees with laptops. We are pressed to take them home, 'tho I usually leave mine behind unless I need to take it home. We all attach one or two LCD screens in the office. Tell your brother to buy a monitor for his laptop, he should be able to find one from HP or Dell for around $75 in a sale.
Thank you, Mark Snyder -----Original Message----- My brother does database work, and his workplace provides him with a Dell laptop that he uses at work. His previous jobs gave him desktop machines to use. He says that having to work on a laptop all day totally rags him out as opposed to how he used to feel after a day using a desktop machine. He'd love to have a larger screen for looking at all those tiny little numbers and letters, but he isn't going to get that where he currently is employed, so he'll just have to deal with being exhausted at the end of every day. Laptops are just not the best tool for working with all day long unless it needs to be portable. In the situation involving my brother, the portability only involves being able to haul the computer home so he can continue to have to work even when on his own time, which I guess means it really isn't his own time at all. (FWIW, I give him a hard time about that.) ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
