Dave <someplace@nowhere-nice.com> writes:

>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.

The main justification, at least for me, is the drastically improved
productivity. In my current job I was stuck with nothing but a Windoze
laptop for the first month or so. It cost me at least an hour a day
(likely more) in lost productivity by having to deal with Windoze dreadful
UI. It doesn't take very long to pay for itself.

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