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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 19:30:20 No.51010064 View Reply Report Delete

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Is the desktop obsolete? Give me one reason to get a desktop other than gaymen. All professional software works fine on a laptop. Riht now I have a laptop anda desktop thats on its way out. I am debating whether to bother replacing it because I dont play PC vidya anymore since Total War sold out and what I actually use my computer for nowadays - CAD, my laptop does it just fine.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 19:39:23 No.51010238 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>51010348 >>51013307 >>51015819

>2015
>Desktop towers are 4x the size of 1990's Towers

What went wrong?

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 19:39:50 No.51010249 Report Delete

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You only own one computer?

fuzz and I thought I was poor

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 19:44:28 No.51010325 Report Delete

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>>51010064
the upsides for me is that i have a lot bigger screen/ many screens, use a different mouse and keyboard. have the power to do what ever i need to do on the computer, upgrading is cheaper.

I know what i listed can be done on a laptop, but i find it alot easier how i have it set out.

desktop is dying because normies just want a browser tbh smh.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 19:45:38 No.51010348 Report Delete

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>>51010064

Video rendering, VMs, CAD assemblies with 1000+ parts, intense scientific simulation, having large amounts of data storage involving many hard drives, as well as RAID setups, having large amounts of desktop space via high resolution, physically larger screens, and/or multiple monitors (I'm not aware of any laptops that support more than 2 or 3), and having more ports in general are the main things that immediately come to mind.

They also have much greater longevity via upgrades and build quality. They're also much more well suited to constant operations such as servers due to the differences between quality PSUs and laptop batteries.

Of course, there's also price. A desktop is and always will be cheaper to build than a functionally equivalent laptop, assuming such a laptop even exists.

>>51010238
Mini-ITX

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 19:47:45 No.51010391 Report Delete

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Laptops are the ones dying and becoming tablets and phones.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 19:49:17 No.51010424 Report Delete

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>>51010348
Hmm true, maybe Ill stick with it. Im just dissilusioned by all the vidya focus on /g/.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 20:14:06 No.51010909 Report Delete

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>>51010391
/thread

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 21:44:57 No.51012424 Report Delete

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>>51010348
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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 22:27:26 No.51013120 Report Delete

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>>51010064
Big screens
Lots of hard drives
Video stuff
Cheaper for same performance

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 22:35:38 No.51013242 Report Delete

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>>51013120
/thread

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 22:39:04 No.51013295 Report Delete

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computing power > laptop
cheaper
can change any part that breaks

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 22:39:56 No.51013307 Report Delete

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>>51010238
gaymers tbh

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 22:39:57 No.51013308 Report Delete

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>>51010064
>All professional software works fine on a laptop.
Time is money, storage space, Xeon processors and multi-gpu rendering setups are all desktop based. Good cooling and swap-able components for short down-times are critical in a professional environment.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 22:42:04 No.51013345 Report Delete

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>>51010064
>3d modeling
>Photo rendering
>Analysis like FEA, Flow, ect
>Large volume storage
>Private server
>multimonitor setups

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 23:44:37 No.51014222 Report Delete

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>not having both
Lame.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 01:10:27 No.51015347 Report Delete

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>>51010064
>All professional software works fine on a laptop.
> CAD, my laptop does it just fine.

Just wait until you start doing more intensive stuff and your laptop shit itself. It will do that.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 01:19:17 No.51015471 Report Delete

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when will this journalist meme end

>other than gaymen
so a multibillion dollar industry

>all professional software works fine
As long as it isn't rendering or 3D and then it will only work until you hit 100C.

>I don't race so nobody needs rally car products

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 01:21:19 No.51015491 Report Delete

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>>51013308
Xeon Processors are now available in mobile form as of Skylake.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 01:22:28 No.51015499 Report Delete

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A server with human-friendly I/O devices attached.

Because modern hardware is powerful enough to serve as workstation and server.

Also serious computing that involves GUI applications (not everything is separated into an editor and a compiler, like software made for artists, by code monkies)

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 01:22:53 No.51015501 Report Delete

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>>51010064
The desktop is the easiest way to supply a tech office with lots of power at a fraction of what it costs to outsource the labor. Gaymen is just a bonus

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 01:30:30 No.51015584 Report Delete

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>>51013345
>>51010348
just FYI, a thinkpad Tx20 or up can do 3 monitors with a dock if it is the nvidia optimus version. You could also add a few more with usb monitors. not a comparable solution to having SLI or crossfire and having 6 or 9 but just saying

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 01:36:05 No.51015645 Report Delete

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>>51013345
>3d modeling
>Photo rendering
>Analysis like FEA, Flow, ect
>Large volume storage
>Private server
All can be done through renting AWS machines.
>multimonitor setups
My laptop has 2 Thunderbolt ports which lets me have 4x 2560x1440 displays or 2x 4K dispalys.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 01:38:48 No.51015673 Report Delete

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>buy laptop
>use it at home

Why are millenials so retarded?

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 01:39:06 No.51015682 Report Delete

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>>51015584
This is true but at that point you're really not that much off from a desktop.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 01:41:51 No.51015724 Report Delete

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>>51010064
honestly it depends on the work that you are doing. Editors like a desktop because of the wide variety of monitors/# of monitors available.

i photo/video edit as well as compile when needed. i run a lenovo y50 with a ThinkVision X24 23.8-inch Ultra-slim FHD LED. this simple setup works great for me and this machine can handle anything i throw at it. gaming on this machine is a breeze too. when i get called out to meetings w/clients my lenovo can be packed and ready to go anytime. it holds it's charge for about 4.5 hours under medium use.

working on a break that i could use on my soon to be new device. pic related.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 01:49:50 No.51015819 Report Delete

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>>51010064
Expandability, cooling, higher performance components. Laptops are great, I daily drive one and absolutely despise gaymer shits who whine about them, but I would never use one for a truly serious job.

The desktop will never be obsolete, even when networking becomes effective enough for thin clients to become usable over the internet.

>>51010238
What the fuck are you talking about? Most towers back then were like pic related or standard minitowers.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 02:00:48 No.51015950 Report Delete

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>>51010064

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 02:01:27 No.51015956 Report Delete

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>>51010064
>All professional software works fine on a laptop.

ALL? You don't know what you're talking about.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 02:08:57 No.51016038 Report Delete

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people only have 1 computer or what?

what a stupid thread

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