On Sat, 30 Dec 2017 12:56:26 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote:

On Sat, 30 Dec 2017 13:08:47 -0600, Char Jackson
wrote:

Extending things another step, I have one laptop here where I use a USB
keyboard, wireless USB mouse, and dual 24" monitors, so the laptop lid
remains closed and the laptop is actually out of sight. I don't consider
it a portable solution, but I have other laptops for that.




Just curious--why is it a laptop rather than a desktop?

My current employer buys new laptops for the team every few years. The
latest one is a beast, a Lenovo Thinkpad with 64GB RAM and i7 CPU, so I
treat it as non-portable, as I described above. It runs vmWare and
currently has 13 VMs running, utilizing a measly 59% of the RAM.

A previous company-provided laptop also has its lid closed and I access
that one via Remote Desktop, RDP. The laptop that I carry with me for
work is one that I bought myself.

The nice thing about the laptops (and 24" Asus monitors) that the
company provided is that all of that gear is gifted, meaning the team
members take immediate ownership. That means I can customize and upgrade
as I see fit, so for the newest Lenovo, which came with a small 250GB
SSD, I added two more SSDs (512GB and 1TB). That's the first laptop I've
owned that can accommodate 3 internal drives, thanks to the new small
m.2 (NVMe) form factor.

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Char Jackson