martha.crocker@sanantonio.gov wrote:
> Morning,
> I'm looking for justification for keeping my SunBlade desktop instead
> of only having a Windows PC to do my administration work from.
>
> I currently have a Windows laptop that I use with a docking station at
> work and carry with me for on-call activities. I also have a SunBlade
> 1000 on my desk which I use for day-to-day activities and to run
> overnight and long jobs that I can't run on the laptop because I take
> it home at night.
>
> Unless I can come up with some good justifictions, my company is
> wanting to take away my Solaris desktop and have me only use my
> laptop. I'd rather just keep my Sun Blade and turn in my laptop.

Screen size, and keyboard size are two i can think of. Even if you add
an external monitor to a laptop, the resolution will be lower than the
blade I expect.

You might find something on the web about health issues with small
keyboards.

Reliability of disks - MTBF of a SCSI disk would (I suspect, see
manufacturers web sites), be greater than a laptop, especially given the
environment is harsher for a laptop.

You can keep confidential data on the machine at the fixed secure
location, rather than a laptop, which have a habit of being stolen.

You don't say what hardware you administer, but if it it SPARC, it would
be useful to run a SPARC binary on a test machine without risking
upsetting the company network.

Does the Blade have Gbit ethernet - does the laptop?

I suspect other might think of other justifications.

Does the blade have 2 CPUs? Code sometimes behaves differently on 2 CPUs.