On Thu, December 13, 2007 12:29 am, Henry E. Howey wrote: > I think we need a list survey of laptop versus desktop usage.
My laptop is only for travel. I'm a touch-typist (alpha and numeric), and laptop keyboards don't have enough keys or vertical key travel, plus I like large screens and there's only one external video connection available. The home office is a wireless network run by an old Pentium 200 server. My desktop has an infrared keyboard, two 22-inch screens, trackball, mouse, and pen tablet, four discrete channels of audio (plus onboard 5.1 audio that I don't use except for testing), and 1TB worth of active drives. Three printers and three scanners are on a separate machine in an alcove. My wife runs a laptop with an external 22-inch screen and 750GB external storage, printer, and separate mouse. My email is all kept on my laptop, but I use VNC so that my laptop screen is on my desktop (actually, all the computers have VNC). Most of the time my laptop sits in another room, attached to a USB hub with 1TB worth of USB hard drives, audio interface, trackball, etc., plus a 22-inch screen when I actually have to use it directly. When I travel, the laptop comes along with audio interface, monitoring headphones (not earbuds), numerical keyboard, trackball, portable hard drive, flash card reader, a 10-pack each of CDs and DVDs, and sometimes the pen tablet, too. It's a pretty fat case for carry-on. I can use the laptop alone, but it slows me down a lot (and I so loathe the whole touchpad thing). Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
