Portable desktop?

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by nomoremondays, Mar 1, 2015.

  1. So a bit of a beginners question I suppose about computers.
    I love working on my laptop. Using it in bed, in the kitchen, on the couch, on the can etc. Sitting at one place on a desktop bugs the hell out of me. Also living in a tiny New York city apartment means desktops and their accoutrements are an eyesore.

    Are there any out of the box laptops where the actual processor is detached from the monitor/keyboard. Searching for 'portable desktops' on google brings up images of a computer in a suitcase! Just looking for a literal keyboard-and-monitor-on lap-while-processor-sits-in-a-closet-wirelessly kind of thing. Do such things exist??

    The goal is of course to harness the power of a standalone pc but on my lap.
     
  2. Yes it exists and it is called desktop remoting, ;-)

     
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  3. ha ha yes, that's what I was thinking about. Just wondering if the hardware geeks have a more elegant solution.
    but yeah, maybe it is as simple a no brainer as that. Brain's fried tonight trying to line up 7 years of eurusd and usdjpy data!
     
  4. zdreg

    zdreg

    re: turning a negative into a positive
    "accoutrements are an eyesore."
    women judge a man by his accoutrements, shoe size for example. in this case they might be impressed by the size of your desktop accoutrements.

    give it a thought, cowboy.
     
  5. ah to be single again...
    ;-)
     
  6. zdreg

    zdreg

    "ah to be single again..."
    leave your desktop screen open.
    take a walk.
    problem solved.
     
    Last edited: Mar 1, 2015
  7. Funny, i just read this thread right now...

    Because I just bought a laptop online last week, and I'm waiting for its delivery right now...I'm gonna throw away my old clunky,ugly,dinosaur desktop PC. -- and just use a laptop instead.

    My old PC...was Really old...it's a Single core Pentium 4 CPU, running Windows XP.
     
  8. Cmoss

    Cmoss

    What laptop did you buy? how did you come to decide on it?
     
  9. If possible, let us know, model number and retailer and price.
     
  10. I bought a Win8 laptop and I hated the experience. I returned it...
    I decided to buy a desktop PC instead, with Windows 7.

    Computing for prolonged periods of time feels so much better, to me, on a full-sized desktop PC. you have a larger keyboard, and mouse, and much larger screen monitor.

    i bought an intel i7 quad core, 8GB ram, Win 7, Benq 24" gaming monitor 1ms response time, geforce GTX 750 video card. mechanical gaming keyboard, gaming mouse.
     
    Last edited: Mar 15, 2015
    #10     Mar 15, 2015
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