Posted on 10/11/2012 3:00:13 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Yes, for 3-D workstations, ftp servers, etc. Laptops are more useful for ordinary work on the go. A desktop will last me about 7 years before I think about upgrading, but I’ll literally wear out a laptop every 12 months.
I bought one a few months ago. I prefer the box that accomodates all sorts of add-on’s. It also is connected to our main tv and stereo. I sometimes use the wireless mouse and the large home theater screen.
But my wife likes her laptop.
I bought one six months ago custom-assembled from CyberpowerPC (Intel i5-2550k processor, 8 GB RAM, 1 TB hard drive). We’re probably going to get my wife a replacement for her machine around the end of the year because the one she’s got is one I built for her 4 1/2 years ago and she could stand an upgrade. We both PC game quite a bit so we need to keep our machines fairly current.
At the same time, we also have a decent three-year-old gaming laptop we got from free courtesy of her dad (he didn’t need it anymore) that she uses while she’s working on making jewelry. She also has a Nook Tablet that almost never leaves her side, except when our 6-year-old wants to play some games on it. And we both have Android smartphones.
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Yes,,,
a “tower” is the only computer, including video cards, etc, that can handle Catia V6 and 3D VIA.
The video card requirements for these programmes is too strong for a laptop.
I will probably be buying a tower within the next year or so, just have to save up the money and everyone knows how that goes these days. This computer is winding down and cannot keep up with the media-photos, videos, sound, etc. One concern I have is everything transferring over.
I have no intention of ever purchasing a carry-around computer smaller than a laptop-they are difficult to read and I tend to lose stuff. Heck I cannot keep track of my cell phone half the time. Way prefer the desk top and large monitor.
My Pinnacle 15 works great on my i7 quad core for editing HD. No problems with it like you read about on forums on the web. The complainers are just using underpowered computers. Download to YouTube, make Blu-Ray discs, etc., no problem.
I did, got a quad core with a upper end graphics card and a 2 tb drive last year. Its more of a server, but I bought it to test out multicore programming and server stuff.
My previous three coputere were laptops, but I have diverged into a server, and a smartphone.
I assembled a high end tower computer(win 7-64) strictly for gaming. For everything else I use a MacBook.
Yes. For gaming. Consoles aren't there yet, but I wish they would hurry up. I know MS needs to make money and to do that they need to make new product, but I'm getting tired of having to upgrade to a new OS, while the old one still works fine, just to run the latest in gaming.
I'm still running XP cuz' the game I mostly play, RACE07, runs on it, but the new one coming out only runs on Vista or higher.
Consoles are only a few hundred bucks and you never have to upgrade them and you can access the web with them. A $20 USB KB and a $20 USB mouse, Google docs and gmail, and you're on the internet doing what most people do with a $500 PC + a monitor. A 2006 XBOX 360 will run today's game, but a 2006 2.2Gh dual-core will not. Go figure.
Oh well, I'll soon move my old PC to server status and replace it as my gaming rig with a new one costing around a grand or so, which will probably only be good for about 4 years till games require more power, RAM and video than that PC is capable of. Such is the world of gaming!
Yep, they are the more powerful than any hand held device out there.
Same here. I even have a WebTV set connected to the TV in the living room. I guess I'm a hoarder.
Flight Simulator user here. I use FSX, FS9, I have X-Plane but don’t use it much. These softwares need high speed CPU’s, and high-end GPU’s. I’m still running my AMD quad core 2.5, but it’s getting long in the tooth. I bought it refurbished.
My son has a cheap walmart emachine that we have decided isn’t up to the gaming he wants to do, so when I upgrade my flight sim rig, my old one gets passed down, his gets passed down to my daughter, etc. We have a pile of old hardware around here also, most works, some just barely, but I’m too lazy to have a yard sale.
True, but full size rack mount cases for generic form factor boards are readily available. I've never seen anyone wear one out....
Me too.
It's my parents fault. They wouldn't buy me a computer for my room when I wuz a kid. Nor did they let me connect to the pipes of the Internets.
Deprived, I wuz.
While my kids were going to college and grad school, I built a tower a year to keep them more or less up to speed. Now I haven't built a tower in ~3years, but am feeling the itch.
Sure, but do you have the original CoCo-3? Is your Commie-64 still in perfect working order, and when's the last time you powered it up to check?
.../humor
Yes. Some of us prefer desktops for real work.
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