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Do you have a laptop and a PC? Or just a laptop?

 

Let us know why you choose to have both or choose to have one or the other. 

 

If you do have a laptop, be sure to post a picture of it or post the model number!

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Is this me personally? Cause in the house we have both but I personally only have my PC.

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I got a laptop for university. I soon had to realize that you can't play many newer titles on a Nvidia 525M so i got myself a proper gaming PC. I use the laptop for when i go home over the weekend but other than that my PC is just way better. :D

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I personally have both. Actually own multiple laptops and parts to make 2 extra desktops also. 

 

Model Numbers as per request: 

Lenovo T61P (out of action due to broken screen hinges) 

Acer 5552 (Athlon II, 4GB, HD4250)(heatsink does a great job of idling at 90+*C) 

Acer Aspire one D250 (Works, just slow) 

Precision M90/6300 (busted screen, but everything else is fully functional). 

 

On desktops, I have a no name 350 watt PSU, a 600 watt OCZ, several random HDDs, ASrock H61DE/S3, Z77 Extreme 4, random sticks of DDR3, and a couple Celeron (1155 socket) that could be used, but nothing to use them for. 

 

As for why I choose to use both, work. That is all. Laptops are nice to have, but on a useful venture, they fall behind fast, but it would be extremely difficult to bolt a desktop to the truck and come up with a generator to power it. 

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I have a Laptop for evening college ASUS Zenbook UX301LA, from my Photoshop and DJ times a MacBook pro and for Work a HP EliteBook 8460p

 

And for Home I have 2 desktop PCs. One for my GF and one for me :)

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Laptop for portability, school, and light gaming. Desktop for heavier gaming. I can barely tolerate my laptop not having a boot SSD though. :P

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Laptop: i7-4810QM - GTX 870m - 8gb RAM

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I got a laptop for university. I soon had to realize that you can't play many newer titles on a Nvidia 525M so i got myself a proper gaming PC. I use the laptop for when i go home over the weekend but other than that my PC is just way better. :D

Same thing I do.  I also prefer the larger monitors on my desktop machine for doing school work.

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Laptops: ThinkPads, lots of ThinkPads

 

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Yeah, as you get older you start collecting, I have just had a clean out of old parts and computers and now I only have 5 laptops and 2 desktops left.

 

I have one broken asus I3 15" (Keeping it for parts)

an asus eeepc Atom

3 aspires an I5 and a duel core and an unknown (using it to run a mame cabinet)

 

Home theatre pc Q6600

and my everyday pc

 

Thinking about building a new HTPC and a NAS. but I have very little time ATM.

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My laptop is an Asus Vivobook S200 with a Pentium B987 1.50GhZ for school and light browsing, as the metal frame is portable and slim to go in my school bag.

And for gaming and serious work, I have my desktop (specs in sig), while not very portable, is more suited to longer sessions of typing due to a mechanial keyboard.

"The unexamined life is not worth living" - Apology 38a, Socrates


 

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 I'm thinking of getting a surface pro 2 to combine the laptop and tablet for travelling for the sake of convenience

Not a bad idea :) but you could get something similar from a different brand of course, with a bulkier keyboard.... I find the surface's keyboard not good enough ;) But hay, you may love it! :) I would just try it out before you buy though!

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What do people even put in these things?

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I have bith but my laptop i got for 90$ off ebay and only use it for watching "stuff"

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