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On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 11:33:01 -0500, "Atila Iskander"
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"Ed Pawlowski" wrote in message
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On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 23:46:35 -0500, "Atila Iskander"
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Tell him to buy himself a laptop
At the prices of laptops today, the savings for a desktop are not
worth
the effort.
Plus the laptop provides a built-in backup power supply, aka battery.


Laptops have a place, but for home use, I still prefer a big honkin'
desktop with a 21 inch or larger monitor, keyboard that can be moved
around, etc.

When I want portability, my netbook has traveled to much of the US and
Europe with me. Or it can sit on my belly when in front of the TV.

You are not thinking outside of the box, and are suffering from tunnel
vision
.
A properly set-up laptop as the equal to your "big honking box"
but with a smaller footprint
AND a backup battery
I also have no problem hooking up 2 monitors, a keyboard and a backup HD
to
my laptop

Just because it's "portable" does NOT mean that it cannot perform in a
non-portable role as well
I have 2 older laptops acting as server and firewall.

Not only are they on a smaller footprint but they also use less power.

And when something goes wrong you PAY or throw it out. No "generic"
replacement parts. And it is WHEN, not IF.

snort
By the time something goes wrong, the computer is long past it's useful life
span.
I have currently 2 laptops that are over 5 years old. And they have been
running 24/7 except for the times that I took them while travelling.
They are currently running as servers
All I did to them was max out the memory
And since I installed Linux on them, I have only booted them once a year to
make sure that there was no memory creep.
The Windows I run on top of the Linux, gets re-booted once a month.

I wouldn't waste my time, money and desk space for a box PC if my life
depended on it
It's just not cost effective.