>buy laptop >buy external monitor >buy bluetooth keyboard >buy bluetooth mouse >buy stand for laptop >plug laptop into monitor >close it >put it aside, on the stand >pair bluetooth mouse and keyboard >use it that way WHY? WHY DO PEOPLE DO THIS? WHAT'S THE POINT OF HAVING TWO MICE OF WHICH YOU'RE ONLY USING ONE, TWO KEYBOARDS OF WHICH YOU'RE ONLY USING ONE, AND AN UNNECESSARY STAND WHICH MOSTLY DOES NOTHING BUT TAKE UP SPACE ON YOUR DESKTOP? I MEAN, I UNDERSTAND THE POINT OF BUYING AN EXTERNAL MONITOR; YOU WANT THE EXTRA SCREEN REAL-ESTATE. I GET THAT. BUT IF THAT'S THE CASE, WHY CLOSE THE LAPTOP AND LOSE A DISPLAY? THIS TYPE OF SETUP IS REDUNDANT AND RETARDED. IF YOU WANTED A DESKTOP, YOU SHOULD'VE BOUGHT A DESKTOP.
Maybe they want to separate work from home, and more realistically one might be on windows and full of gaymes, the other might be linux/mac for programming or work.
But at the same time they also want to have the best of both worlds and have the ability to use either, whenever they want
Xavier Gray
I'm a STEM PhD student. I prefer the desktop set-up at work but also have to travel constantly to present my data at conferences/give presentations at my university, and I like already having everything on my comp without worrying about moving data over from a desktop to a separate laptop whenever I have to give a talk.
Wyatt Bailey
This guy obviously has a KVM switch to connect his hard drive and his Apple to the same computer so he can switch between them over the cloud By the way that's a Phantek case right? Good taste
Benjamin Bennett
Understandable. But with the "desktop"-esque setup at work, why not just use the laptop's built-in controls to manipulate onscreen data on both the laptop and the external monitor rather than having a bunch of redundant peripherals?
Nolan Watson
>I MEAN, I UNDERSTAND THE POINT OF BUYING AN EXTERNAL MONITOR; YOU WANT THE EXTRA SCREEN REAL-ESTATE. I GET THAT. BUT IF THAT'S THE CASE, WHY CLOSE THE LAPTOP AND LOSE A DISPLAY?
I've been using computers since the 1970s (seriously, fuck you, young punks) and to this day, after working with them almost daily since 1975-ish in various forms and factors, I've never ever ever once found myself in a situation where I find multiple physical monitors to be useful to me.
I currently have a nice ThinkPad T420s, and I can attach an external monitor to it that I have sitting on the floor behind me, but I don't need it and would find it useless overall. I'm not interested in having to shift my vision from one display to the other, back and forth, to get shit done.
Sure, I'd love to have a 2560x1440 IPS display sitting here on my desk right now but I don't (the one I have is basically an old TN 1440x900 panel and the T420s has a 1600x900 in it so that's why I don't need the desktop display).
If someone wants to donate a 2560x1440 IPS display to me, great, thanks, I'll pay shipping, but aside from that, I'm fine with 1600x900 for the future, it's enough.
Wyatt Smith
There are certain tasks that one might want several monitors for. Namely producing music (VSTs on one screen, main tracking DAW on the other) or video editing (controls on the laptop's display, video playing on the monitor). I mean, I don't know what you do with your computer but those are just a few tasks that begin to feel really cramped when you're working on one little display.
Hunter Fisher
>I've been using computers since the 1970s Post old-ass wrinkly hands with timestamp otherwise I don't believe you.
Come on, we all know everyone who posts here is a 21 year old college dropout with a drinking habit.
Blake Gutierrez
sad thing is there are some people that will use a laptop as a desktop and never as a laptop
Blake Bennett
so use the cloud???
Gavin James
ahem.... I'm 25.... but ye you're right give or take 4 years
Bentley Hernandez
>Why close the laptop Why would I want to look down at a display when my monitors are at perfect head level? I can tuck away my laptop nicely behind the monitors but opened it would take up a load of space on my desk.
