Do you do everything on one laptop you carry around with you? Or do you have a laptop and a desktop? Can you describe your various setups? Do you have flex devices like tablets? How do you divide your time between your phone and bigger screens?
Just want to chat on this subject.
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Primarily I have 3 computers to be exact.
1) An Intel i7 gaming rig running windows 10.
I can not lie about this one. The core reason I built this workstation is mostly out of love for gaming. This one has two 22inch displays for working purpose and it usually runs windows 10 + Debian for windows for the lite working purpose, and I have a backup HDD with Linux mint installed so that I can use it in any kind of emergency.
2) Macbook pro-2017
I mostly use it because I am balancing my life between university and job where I need to work every possible hour that I can, And this machine lets me work from university library very easily.
The reason I picked MBP was that sometimes I need to use Xcode.
3) Acer potato laptop
I bought this at a time when I had less money and I needed to work outside of my home. Bought the cheapest laptop that I could find and upgraded its ram. Currently, it does nothing except for being a media server.
Apple really handcuffs developers with this.
Unless you build a Hackintosh 😉
my previous pc had a unsupported cpu. tried to build one with the current pc, and failed.. seems to be some kind of problem with graphics driver 😶
Which GPU do you have? Or is it integrated?
I have a GTX950 2gb as my gpu.
This one is from my old pc.
Maybe you're missing some setting from the BIOS. Find your model on the Internet and set the recommended settings. Plus, try to boot it with the integrated GPU, then install the Nvidia Webdrivers, and then boot it up with the GTX. Installing a Hackintosh is not easy, but it is worth it 💪🏻
i will definitely try it in future 😁
Some of us like handcuffs. 😉
worse keyboard ever. Mine failed after 3 months.
I do pretty much everything on a mid-2012 MacBook Pro with a 13" screen. I like versatility and not being tied to a desk. I work from home 4 days a week, of which I spend a lot of time working in coffee shops. 😁
I have a desktop PC (Windows 10), but it's mostly for gaming. Although, since starting to learn Unity and C#, I've included the desktop for that, mostly because it's more powerful/faster.
Preach!
I work also mostly out of a mid-2012 15" MBP and with a MacBook Air when I travel. Love both machines they are so robust.
My Devices are, bare in mind I work support:
1) Work Desktop
2) Home Laptop (for offsite working)
3) Gaming PC
4) Nexus 10
5) Nexus 7
6) Work Laptop
I ordered them by how often they're used.
I am 99% sure GTX 870 for desktops doesn't exist. Maybe a GTX 970?
I used an Eee PC once to run a Minecraft server
I don't know why I wrote 870, I knew it was a 560 😕
I've fixed the comment now.
I usually use my phone for reading small articles, browsing dev.to and watching videos. This transitions over to my tablet laptop (Transformer windows tablet with keyboard dock) which I use for basic browsing, reading and also watching videos.
When developing I mainly use my laptop. For my actual work at the office, I'm using a desktop.
Only one, a 15' MBP 2016 (the first with a touchbar), I bought it because my previous 13' MBP 2015 didn't have enough space to run Docker for a week, it consumed a lot of disk space in logs in the past.
And switched to a MBP due Sketch for doing Frontend development, I spent almost 3 years without never using Sketch but I was told I will use it on a previous job so 🤷♂️
I want to now switch back to the previous MBP since the keyboard of this one is terrible 😕and maybe get an iPad to do some non-dev work (like support) without opening a laptop.
A shitty windows vista era (currently running win10) laptop that can run Illustrator or Photoshop, but not at the same time, choked to death trying to load Atom so I had to switch to Sublime.
A slightly less shitty Ubuntu Desktop that I use for most of my development work at home. It also runs Plex for my growing collection of movies.
At work I have a slightly shitty windows desktop that had the same struggles with Adobe products as my laptop, and a slightly better windows desktop that opens illustrator in like 7 seconds and it's magical.
Plus several different DigitalOcean droplets.
😭 I need a better computer 😭
I like how all three are on the shitty spectrum.
I have a personal Surface Pro 3. I plug this into my LG 27" 4k via USB and Display port and use the Surface as a second screen. Keyboard and mouse plug in the monitor. If I'm just doing something quick I use the Surface without type cover in Tablet mode.
I also have a Work Dell Precision laptop which plugs into the same LG Monitor when I work at home. When at work it plugs into a dock with a 24"and 22" monitors. It is used as a regular laptop in meetings.
I have a custom built desktop, a Lenovo laptop, an iPad Mini, and an LG G6.
My desktop runs Linux and I use for everything from playing the occasional game to programming to doing my taxes.
The laptop runs the exact same setup as my desktop and also shares all config and project files with the desktop, either via git or Dropbox. This makes it really easy to seamlessly switch between the two machines without having to setup my dev environment again for a certain project. I mainly use it for coding.
I originally bought the iPad exclusively for university, but it's rather handy to browse code and quickly answer smaller issues when you don't have the laptop around.
The phone's main use is for reading the occasional article and twitter, it's basically a distraction in pocket format. I don't really use it for productivity anymore.
At home I only use the desktop and when I'm at the university, I use the latop or the iPad depending on what I'm working on.
EDIT: I also have a Raspberry PI which for now only runs an IRC bouncer.
I moved to Mexico earlier this year, and only have what fits into a 50L bag and a small backpack. I move to a new city every 3-4 months, so I keep things sparse.
So, I have my MacBook Air (13" 2017) and my terrible phone: a Moto Z2 Play (my phone broke here, and because of really high import taxes on electronics, a good phone was just too much to stomach), so I have a super high-end mediocre phone.
My big dream addition - if I ever find a place I want to stay at for a serious amount of time - is an external monitor. My kingdom for some screen space!
It seems like there's money to be made in a monitor rental service for digital nomads :D
Dare to dream!
1- My Lenovo linux laptop
2- The easy-to-carry linux hp mini laptop
3- My even-easier-to-carry RPI 3 with mini screen and raspbian
I use my phone a lot when going out, But I do need to rest from both laptop and mobile phone from time to time!
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