Small and Quiet

[JonJ678]

I'd like to suggest a slightly different approach to small & quiet. How about big & loud, but far away?

I do all of my development work on a laptop, partly because it's small and quiet. But it's also very slow. All the laptop really does is connect to a big & loud computer somewhere else in thin client / terminal fashion. So the computer that is actually doing the work sounds like a vacuum cleaner - but as it's in another room (usually another building), I don't care

The main argument is that quiet increases the cost of the computer, and small increases the cost of the computer, so I'd rather have a faster computer and more whisky instead.

 

[sandeep]

I'd like to suggest a slightly different approach to small & quiet. How about big & loud, but far away?

I do all of my development work on a laptop, partly because it's small and quiet. But it's also very slow. All the laptop really does is connect to a big & loud computer somewhere else in thin client / terminal fashion. So the computer that is actually doing the work sounds like a vacuum cleaner - but as it's in another room (usually another building), I don't care

The main argument is that quiet increases the cost of the computer, and small increases the cost of the computer, so I'd rather have a faster computer and more whisky instead.

Interesting idea, but that means you're most likely working over a network, and I can't stand lag - even if it's the tiniest amount.

 

[ShivP]

Tbh Mini-ITX builds aren't all that much more now-a-days, the one I specced has similar performance to a £1200 ATX build!