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Everyone has laptops so they can telework except for departments like mine that deal with sensitive information. We all have desktops which means if the office is closed we can't work at all. Not a bad thing in my book.
Everyone has laptops so they can telework except for departments like mine that deal with sensitive information. We all have desktops which means if the office is closed we can't work at all. Not a bad thing in my book.
Hey, Alley01, "telework" and "sensitive information", that sounds like a gov'ment employee to me.
I am gov'ment and we - as in my team - use laptops. Most divisions use laptops with docking stations, monitors and keyboards. It allows for flexibility if you want to telework.
If you have a laptop without a keyboard or a separate monitor, I could see not liking it. But, with the separate monitor and keyboard, you really don't notice the difference; the laptop functions just like the desktop - minus the bulkiness.
Hey, and if you get an air card to accompany your laptop, then you can move your office to your favorite recreational spot (the park, Starbucks, Panera Bread, Disneyworld).
With cloud computing, laptops are becoming less and less necessary. All of the attorneys in my firm have laptops and docking stations/monitors, but most people never take their laptops home. They use their home computers and log-in via the Web. They only use their laptops if they're traveling.
A few are using iPads, which the firm has started supporting. I suspect that both the laptop and desktop are going away. We'll have a monitor/keyboard "terminal" to connect to the server and then ultra mobile devices like the iPad. Nothing will be saved locally so there's no need for a hard drive.
Laptops will be a specialist tool. For example, I'm a composer and it's very useful for me to take my composing and sound-editing software into rehearsal. I will probably always need a laptop. However, most people don't have a need for such functionality.
Hey, Alley01, "telework" and "sensitive information", that sounds like a gov'ment employee to me.
I am gov'ment and we - as in my team - use laptops. Most divisions use laptops with docking stations, monitors and keyboards. It allows for flexibility if you want to telework.
If you have a laptop without a keyboard or a separate monitor, I could see not liking it. But, with the separate monitor and keyboard, you really don't notice the difference; the laptop functions just like the desktop - minus the bulkiness.
Hey, and if you get an air card to accompany your laptop, then you can move your office to your favorite recreational spot (the park, Starbucks, Panera Bread, Disneyworld).
Nope - not Government. Some of our colleagues work in the field and need laptops and others work in a service capacity which also requires laptops. But, I work basically in a legal capacity (no easy way to explain what I do) of a top company and with that, we need all our work to stay on site for the majority of us in the department. But, with that said, some of the colleagues in my department do have Laptops, but very, very few. You could count them on one hand for a department of over 50 people. We have remote access for our e-mail and our company intranet but that is it. So we get to enjoy the closings when there is snow until we get back and have to play catch up!
With cloud computing, laptops are becoming less and less necessary. All of the attorneys in my firm have laptops and docking stations/monitors, but most people never take their laptops home. They use their home computers and log-in via the Web. They only use their laptops if they're traveling.
A few are using iPads, which the firm has started supporting. I suspect that both the laptop and desktop are going away. We'll have a monitor/keyboard "terminal" to connect to the server and then ultra mobile devices like the iPad. Nothing will be saved locally so there's no need for a hard drive.
Laptops will be a specialist tool. For example, I'm a composer and it's very useful for me to take my composing and sound-editing software into rehearsal. I will probably always need a laptop. However, most people don't have a need for such functionality.
With cloud computing, laptops are becoming less and less necessary. All of the attorneys in my firm have laptops and docking stations/monitors, but most people never take their laptops home. They use their home computers and log-in via the Web. They only use their laptops if they're traveling.
A few are using iPads, which the firm has started supporting. I suspect that both the laptop and desktop are going away. We'll have a monitor/keyboard "terminal" to connect to the server and then ultra mobile devices like the iPad. Nothing will be saved locally so there's no need for a hard drive.
Laptops will be a specialist tool. For example, I'm a composer and it's very useful for me to take my composing and sound-editing software into rehearsal. I will probably always need a laptop. However, most people don't have a need for such functionality.
Some places don't let you use the programs that let you do that for security reasons.
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We are pretty much all laptops, we had Lenovos but are replacing then as they get old with Dells. I and my staff have dual 19" monitors set up with Nvidia to have different things on each screen. Makes the work a lot easier.
The laptops are also setup with a secure private virtual network so we can work from home when appropriate, or if away on a business trip.
I'm self employed, but I prefer a laptop for working and a desktop for home use. I use my desktop mainly for computer gaming, and you have much more in the way of choice of upgrades with a nice tower case.
Laptops can be very handy. You can carry them anywhere, and use them anywhere that there's wireless access. I love the portability of laptops.
The only thing is, they can be difficult to hook-up to printers, if you need to print something.
I have a desktop with dual monitors. Although we can be set up on a laptop to connect remotely, it's not a perfect system by any means. Also, I like only being able to work while I'm at work! Luckily I have the kind of job where I can (mostly) forget about it when I'm not actually doing it. Our computers are so restricted that when I once tried to download a spreadsheet from a client's data CD, a message popped up stating that this couldn't be done!
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We have remote access for our e-mail and our company intranet but that is it. So we get to enjoy the closings when there is snow until we get back and have to play catch up!
