Wouldn't it make more sense to have one or two laptops available for those who travel and need this computing power on the road? If most of the employees work is done at their desk with only occasional travel, an extra $600 per employee may be kind of wasteful. For each desktop you buy you save $600 over a laptop, so it would be possible after 6 desktops to use $3700 to buy a laptop to be made available to traveling employees. If they all travel and need this kind of computing power then the laptops would make sense. I don't see whether the user travels with a laptop as a "Separate Issue". It is the issue. If no one ever traveled it would be a waste to buy $3700 laptops over $3100 desktops.
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From: bobwarasila <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 11:08:26 -0500
Subject: [PCBUILD] Laptop versus desktop
This is a hardware question but not a building question:^))
I'm trying to help my son who runs a small architecture firm decide if he should
upgrade some desks to high end laptops as replacements for desktops. These
machines would be loaded with AutoCad or AutoCad LT depending on who uses them.
His IT person is recommending DELL Precision M70 with a 2.13GHz CPU, 2 GB RAM
and a FX Go1400 256 MB graphics card. We understand that a separate issue is:
does the user travel with the laptop. The current price on these computers is
about $3700 with XP Pro and Small Business Office Suite. A Dell Precision
Workstation with Xeon CPU and 2 GB runs about $3100 including monitor.
So the question is: Does it make sense to use laptops for AutoCad architectural
work?
Bob Warasila
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