Portable desktop?

[nomoremondays]

So a bit of a beginners question I suppose about computers.
I love working on my laptop. Using it in bed, in the kitchen, on the couch, on the can etc. Sitting at one place on a desktop bugs the hell out of me. Also living in a tiny New York city apartment means desktops and their accoutrements are an eyesore.

Are there any out of the box laptops where the actual processor is detached from the monitor/keyboard. Searching for 'portable desktops' on google brings up images of a computer in a suitcase! Just looking for a literal keyboard-and-monitor-on lap-while-processor-sits-in-a-closet-wirelessly kind of thing. Do such things exist??

The goal is of course to harness the power of a standalone pc but on my lap.

 

[volpunter]

Yes it exists and it is called desktop remoting, ;-)

So a bit of a beginners question I suppose about computers.
I love working on my laptop. Using it in bed, in the kitchen, on the couch, on the can etc. Sitting at one place on a desktop bugs the hell out of me. Also living in a tiny New York city apartment means desktops and their accoutrements are an eyesore.

Are there any out of the box laptops where the actual processor is detached from the monitor/keyboard. Searching for 'portable desktops' on google brings up images of a computer in a suitcase! Just looking for a literal keyboard-and-monitor-on lap-while-processor-sits-in-a-closet-wirelessly kind of thing. Do such things exist??

The goal is of course to harness the power of a standalone pc but on my lap.

 

[nomoremondays]

Yes it exists and it is called desktop remoting, ;-)

ha ha yes, that's what I was thinking about. Just wondering if the hardware geeks have a more elegant solution.
but yeah, maybe it is as simple a no brainer as that. Brain's fried tonight trying to line up 7 years of eurusd and usdjpy data!

 

[zdreg]

Yes it exists and it is called desktop remoting, ;-)

So a bit of a beginners question I suppose about computers.
I love working on my laptop. Using it in bed, in the kitchen, on the couch, on the can etc. Sitting at one place on a desktop bugs the hell out of me. Also living in a tiny New York city apartment means desktops and their accoutrements are an eyesore.

Are there any out of the box laptops where the actual processor is detached from the monitor/keyboard. Searching for 'portable desktops' on google brings up images of a computer in a suitcase! Just looking for a literal keyboard-and-monitor-on lap-while-processor-sits-in-a-closet-wirelessly kind of thing. Do such things exist??

The goal is of course to harness the power of a standalone pc but on my lap.

re: turning a negative into a positive
"accoutrements are an eyesore."
women judge a man by his accoutrements, shoe size for example. in this case they might be impressed by the size of your desktop accoutrements.

give it a thought, cowboy.

 

[nomoremondays]

re: turning a negative into a positive
"accoutrements are an eyesore."
women judge a man by his accoutrements, shoe size for example. in this case they might be impressed by the size of your desktop accoutrements.

give it a thought, cowboy.

ah to be single again...
;-)

 

[zdreg]

"ah to be single again..."
leave your desktop screen open.
take a walk.
problem solved.

 

[lawrence-lugar]

Funny, i just read this thread right now...

Because I just bought a laptop online last week, and I'm waiting for its delivery right now...I'm gonna throw away my old clunky,ugly,dinosaur desktop PC. -- and just use a laptop instead.

My old PC...was Really old...it's a Single core Pentium 4 CPU, running Windows XP.

 

[Cmoss]

Funny, i just read this thread right now...

Because I just bought a laptop online last week, and I'm waiting for its delivery right now...I'm gonna throw away my old clunky,ugly,dinosaur desktop PC. -- and just use a laptop instead.

My old PC...was Really old...it's a Single core Pentium 4 CPU, running Windows XP.

What laptop did you buy? how did you come to decide on it?

 

[jk90029]

What laptop did you buy? how did you come to decide on it?

If possible, let us know, model number and retailer and price.

 

[lawrence-lugar]

What laptop did you buy? how did you come to decide on it?

I bought a Win8 laptop and I hated the experience. I returned it...
I decided to buy a desktop PC instead, with Windows 7.

Computing for prolonged periods of time feels so much better, to me, on a full-sized desktop PC. you have a larger keyboard, and mouse, and much larger screen monitor.

i bought an intel i7 quad core, 8GB ram, Win 7, Benq 24" gaming monitor 1ms response time, geforce GTX 750 video card. mechanical gaming keyboard, gaming mouse.