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Ah, what is the use case. Indeed.
I use the lappy for work. Mostly I work at our office and at home. As I basically have display+mouse+keyboard set up, I essentially use it as I could use the mini-ITX case suggestion indeed. However, I do, at times, have to visit/work at clients' offices and there it would be less workable. Moreover, AFAICS, that case alone (with PSU) comes in at 2.0Kg. That is without, I think, MB, CPU, Mem, Storage and power cable. My current lappy is 2.8Kg (Asus N55-SF). I reallty like it, it was a great buy but, well, if I can save 25% or more that would be great.
I transport at least four times a week, back and forth, sometimes inbetween as well.
Why I need/want a lot of power is because of my work as well. I do all kinds of data and scenario analysis. The latter using VBA (so, that is single-threaded still unless parts are done in Excel itself) and the former with SQL Server and those batches can take quite a bit of time. I regularly saturate the SATA3 SSD and CPU. I am also developing a transaction processing application in SQL (not OLTP) that processes large batches and testing takes a lot of time as I need to run scenarios running over months to check the end result etc.
I used to hate laptops and did not take them seriously, ever. However, SSD did change all that, IMHO, the great equaliser between lappies and desktops. Sure, a desktop will allways give you more but the user experience gap has been narrowed tremendeously. I don;t think I'll do desktops ever again. Only a Server and laptops. One day I'll have a big fat server with VMs and run everything through RDP. Then I would no longer need processing power from the lappies and could do with a 12" i3 and small HDD provided it has connectivity for screens, kb, mouse and internet. But that is for in a few years, not now.
Edit: Oh, and I run Rosetta@Home for MURC, you may have read about that ;-)
I use the lappy for work. Mostly I work at our office and at home. As I basically have display+mouse+keyboard set up, I essentially use it as I could use the mini-ITX case suggestion indeed. However, I do, at times, have to visit/work at clients' offices and there it would be less workable. Moreover, AFAICS, that case alone (with PSU) comes in at 2.0Kg. That is without, I think, MB, CPU, Mem, Storage and power cable. My current lappy is 2.8Kg (Asus N55-SF). I reallty like it, it was a great buy but, well, if I can save 25% or more that would be great.
I transport at least four times a week, back and forth, sometimes inbetween as well.
Why I need/want a lot of power is because of my work as well. I do all kinds of data and scenario analysis. The latter using VBA (so, that is single-threaded still unless parts are done in Excel itself) and the former with SQL Server and those batches can take quite a bit of time. I regularly saturate the SATA3 SSD and CPU. I am also developing a transaction processing application in SQL (not OLTP) that processes large batches and testing takes a lot of time as I need to run scenarios running over months to check the end result etc.
I used to hate laptops and did not take them seriously, ever. However, SSD did change all that, IMHO, the great equaliser between lappies and desktops. Sure, a desktop will allways give you more but the user experience gap has been narrowed tremendeously. I don;t think I'll do desktops ever again. Only a Server and laptops. One day I'll have a big fat server with VMs and run everything through RDP. Then I would no longer need processing power from the lappies and could do with a 12" i3 and small HDD provided it has connectivity for screens, kb, mouse and internet. But that is for in a few years, not now.
Edit: Oh, and I run Rosetta@Home for MURC, you may have read about that ;-)
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