Ditching the PC

[frnd08]

I need to 'clean up' my apartment and make some space for home theater enhancements.

To do that I have to ditch the PC for a laptop. Is this something you would recommend? I don't do heavy work but usually my PC runs 24x7. Guess that'll have to go.

Would love some suggestions regarding this.

Thanks.

 

[madhu_7]

If i was in Ur shoes i would prefer to retain the PC. I somehow miss the feel wen i use laptop.....Desktop has always given me flexibility and bein a photographer i lack the overall experience in laptop not to mention My ALIENWARE monitors...However portability is a pain.....

Note : Individual Thoughts.Just my opinion which stopped me from buyin a laptop

 

[s_anuj]

I need to 'clean up' my apartment and make some space for home theater enhancements.

To do that I have to ditch the PC for a laptop. Is this something you would recommend? I don't do heavy work but usually my PC runs 24x7. Guess that'll have to go.

Would love some suggestions regarding this.

Thanks.

I've been thinking about the same too. I do however do a bit of gaming (crysis etc) that would need a very expensive laptop to run.

You said the PC runs 24x7; If that's for downloading purposes then a Laptop will use a lot less power. I moved torrents from my desktop (quadcore & the works) to a netbook, reduced about 200 bucks a month on power bills.

 

[frnd08]

I've been thinking about the same too. I do however do a bit of gaming (crysis etc) that would need a very expensive laptop to run.

You said the PC runs 24x7; If that's for downloading purposes then a Laptop will use a lot less power. I moved torrents from my desktop (quadcore & the works) to a netbook, reduced about 200 bucks a month on power bills.

Thanks. But is a laptop really capable of running that long? My PC has an amd processor, x2 240, but has serious overheating issues, shuts down suddenly after it gets heated.

Is that something you have experienced on a laptop?

 

[avidyarthy]

Would suggest some of you to look at the all-in-one designs ... ie. towerless with wireless keypad & mouse models from Lenovo and Dell.

I recently purchased a Lenovo B300 @ 28 k.

 

[frnd08]

Would suggest some of you to look at the all-in-one designs ... ie. towerless with wireless keypad & mouse models from Lenovo and Dell.

I recently purchased a Lenovo B300 @ 28 k.

Thanks.

Still its a desktop nonetheless. What one gains in space one still loses on the portability factor. Taking the b300 to bed, erm that's something one can't do.

 

[avidyarthy]

Taking the b300 to bed, erm that's something one can't do.

Well, thats a stage crossed many moons back, kind of, when laptops started getting available in India .......

Seek something more responsive in bed to keep me interested .... :licklips:. You expect that from a carnivore!

 

[prasun.gera]

Get a fancy laptop, a docking station, an external monitor, a mouse, a keyboard and speakers. The docking station makes things much more convenient. You can just dock your laptop and use it as a PC. Besides, you'd already have most of things that I mentioned from your PC setup. So, you'll only need to buy a laptop and a docking station. Buying a laptop which can match a PC's specs is a different issue altogether, and it would cost twice as much. And no matter what you get, it would become obsolete in a couple of years.

 

[s_anuj]

Thanks. But is a laptop really capable of running that long? My PC has an amd processor, x2 240, but has serious overheating issues, shuts down suddenly after it gets heated.

Is that something you have experienced on a laptop?

I shutdown my netbook once a week. else it's always on... no heating or other stability issues. (It's a lenovo S10-3T)

 

[frnd08]

I shutdown my netbook once a week. else it's always on... no heating or other stability issues. (It's a lenovo S10-3T)

u serious? it takes all that load and doesnt huff and puff? thats awesome actually.

 

[frnd08]

Get a fancy laptop, a docking station, an external monitor, a mouse, a keyboard and speakers. The docking station makes things much more convenient. You can just dock your laptop and use it as a PC. Besides, you'd already have most of things that I mentioned from your PC setup. So, you'll only need to buy a laptop and a docking station. Buying a laptop which can match a PC's specs is a different issue altogether, and it would cost twice as much. And no matter what you get, it would become obsolete in a couple of years.

thanks man, thats really good advice. and lenovo with i3 is okay (i believe i5 on a laptop is still dual core and not quad)? heard dell has some serious battery life issues.

 

[kaushik]

u serious? it takes all that load and doesnt huff and puff? thats awesome actually.

itz a usual thingy for vaios ..sony has a fan that throws heat sidewise.also very silent
my lappy runs 45days , 100days i press standby for 2 mins ..
and again it runs .

why people fear .. the CPU is designed to work all d time , Hdd also has big life
i just halt the fan thing just as a habit by pressing standby