This one is mainly for John, all comers welcome of course, but in part my attempt to excise and examine a side issue coming out of the big long "Items UG needs to fix!!" thread.
It was in response to a question about platforms that John responded that the new MacBook Pro is a great machine. I can't disagree with that especially after comparing the specs in detail with other available systems, but I was surprised to see that the conversation turned to laptops with no real mention of Desktops, and it piqued my curiosity.
Speaking as one who would welcome the demise of the desktop in favor of its portable cousin I would be pleased to see an end to what I view as largely a marketing exercise whereby the latest and greatest desktop has always arrived on the market a year sooner and better performed than the current laptop at twice the price. Since software development generally follows the introduction of new hardware the desktops always seemed to lead the way. So to hear a laptop rated so highly would in the past have seemed wrong. Unless that is that the gap is closing. The specs on some of these machines show that this may well be the case, but I'm still not sure.
Do you think that the current crop of laptops are well enough performed to genuinely replace a desktop machine in terms of being capable NX workstations?
Do you think this will persist and signals a new trend away from desktop machines?
Which is to say I'd welcome it but I'm still somewhat skeptical!
What about other well performed Laptops, how do the Dells and maybe HP laptops compare, or is the MacBook Pro a one of standout machine?
Because it has to be said that they ain't cheap.
Lastly and importantly for me at least. With the upcoming mooted demise of the dongle it seems that in some ways using a laptop may the the only practical way to maintain portability of a License. So I have to ask what advice PLMS have to offer on the subject?
Which is to say I find it easy to obtain advice from official sources about what I can't do, but this comes without any address to our needs to protect our investment and go about doing business the way we are currently able to do. We maintained a few licenses to work off site using dongles and have readily moved from one workstation to the next, sometimes on a daytime/evening work basis. Now it seems it may be difficult to do that, unless we replace workstations with laptops.
Best Regards
Hudson
It was in response to a question about platforms that John responded that the new MacBook Pro is a great machine. I can't disagree with that especially after comparing the specs in detail with other available systems, but I was surprised to see that the conversation turned to laptops with no real mention of Desktops, and it piqued my curiosity.
Speaking as one who would welcome the demise of the desktop in favor of its portable cousin I would be pleased to see an end to what I view as largely a marketing exercise whereby the latest and greatest desktop has always arrived on the market a year sooner and better performed than the current laptop at twice the price. Since software development generally follows the introduction of new hardware the desktops always seemed to lead the way. So to hear a laptop rated so highly would in the past have seemed wrong. Unless that is that the gap is closing. The specs on some of these machines show that this may well be the case, but I'm still not sure.
Do you think that the current crop of laptops are well enough performed to genuinely replace a desktop machine in terms of being capable NX workstations?
Do you think this will persist and signals a new trend away from desktop machines?
Which is to say I'd welcome it but I'm still somewhat skeptical!
What about other well performed Laptops, how do the Dells and maybe HP laptops compare, or is the MacBook Pro a one of standout machine?
Because it has to be said that they ain't cheap.
Lastly and importantly for me at least. With the upcoming mooted demise of the dongle it seems that in some ways using a laptop may the the only practical way to maintain portability of a License. So I have to ask what advice PLMS have to offer on the subject?
Which is to say I find it easy to obtain advice from official sources about what I can't do, but this comes without any address to our needs to protect our investment and go about doing business the way we are currently able to do. We maintained a few licenses to work off site using dongles and have readily moved from one workstation to the next, sometimes on a daytime/evening work basis. Now it seems it may be difficult to do that, unless we replace workstations with laptops.
Best Regards
Hudson
