Lonely screen portable movie#

The solution obviously is a docking station. And this wouldn't change even if the laptop was a 10' ultraportable. all the external devices connected to it (two monitors, printer, headset, microphone and a charger), which means, that I'd have to disconnect all of these and then reconnect them again each time I move my laptop somewhere else. When I started analyzing the possible reason, I discovered, that the main reason is not the size or weight of the laptop - the main thing is.

Lonely screen portable movie#

Even though I'd maybe like to watch a movie in some different location, or work in my balcony. I have realized, that I almost never remove my laptop from my desk now (except when I'm traveling). Given all of the changes above, there are no more reasons for me to have this huge beast, but this blog post is not about my need to change hardware. Plus, I'm traveling around 30% of my time, which means, that I have to carry this laptop around quite a lot. And as I'm connecting to a remote machine to do the actual work on - the computing power of the laptop itself doesn't matter that much. I've ended up buying Dell XPS 17 RAM/GT555M 3 GB/2x500GB HDD), with which I was quite happy at that time.Īs everything in life - the situation changed now - I'm working from home, so I needed to buy external monitors for productivity, so the screen size on the laptop itself doesn't really matter.

My laptop moved only between my living room and bedroom, so size/weight didn't matter.

At that point in my life, I was trying to not buy any more stuff, than I needed, to be able to move with relative ease - that meant no external monitors.

I think the bigger the screen(s) - the better.

For the mentioned tasks, I needed computing power.

A year ago I was buying a new personal laptop, which would be used for all personal tasks (web, email, music, movies), hobby development projects and occasional gaming.The decision at that time was to buy the biggest and most powerful (well, at least big and powerful enough) laptop out there, for those reasons: