Ask HN: Should I invest in a desktop PC in 2017?

Post by yoo1I » Tue, Jan 17, 2017, 8:53 PM UTC

chestervonwinch wrote: post #40

Scene_Cast2 wrote: post #32

So here are the reasons why I personally like having a desktop. * Quiet under full load. Can actually run jobs overnight in my bedroom (e.g. rendering, machine learning). * Frees up space from the desk. Better for ergonomics if you set things up right. * Can have more memory for memory-intensive things (VMs, rendering, machine learning, etc). * Slightly cheaper for the performance. In return, you sacrifice portabilit…

> How do you automatically shift everything over? I'd like to know if there's an easy solution for this as well. I have a laptop and a desktop that I snagged at a university auction [1], both with Ubuntu. I keep a portion of my work in Dropbox, but I'd really like to build a "local network dropbox equivalent" for large directories. I don't have the knowledge to do so. [1]: http://www.publicsurplus.com/