We just did the exact opposite at my workplace. All laptops for stay-in-office employees were replaced with desktops. Why? The improvement in performance and abilities make a significant boost in employee productivity. We are a software shop though, so basically a bunch of geeks and power users. :)
Greg > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Winterlight > Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 3:34 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; The Hardware List > Subject: RE: [H] Consumer reports smokes crack > > > > > >I'll switch to a laptop when laptops come with ergonomic keyboards, 1 TB of > > that's you... and every other geek, and power user but that is not > representative of 99 percent of the market. The telling moment will > come when industry and government stop buying desktops in favor of > laptops. And I think that will happen a lot faster then we think, not > for PC reasons, but for power cost reasons. Laptops are great at > using every amp to it's fullest. > > I am in Southern Cal where electricity isn't cheap. In order run > either my dual 3.6 Xeon workstation or my P4 3.4 24/7 costs around > 40-60 dollars a month each.Just leaving them on throws me into a > penalty Kwhr cost for exceeding my residential allotment! My old > latitude 233MMX which functions as a print server, FTP server, and > long term storage and is on 24/7 costs pennies a day.
