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nofearfactor

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Both. All. Myself Im pretty much always on the run so Im usually always using a mix of wireless devices- laptop, phone, mobile, etc.

At home we have a PC setup in our media/entertainment room that is wired, mostly because its near my hub. Its mainly still setup for my wife because she brings alot of work home and she likes to use a PC instead of a laptop when working, plus its basically just always been there for anyyone to use as the main central house PC, so Ive just kept them upgraded along with bigger and skinnier monitors over the years.
I have a small recording studio/work shop room next to our garage that I ran cat5 to the room from my hub because I like to use a wired PC with my recording and mixing gear, even though we're pretty much heading to/already using our laptops in most of our recording now.

Throughout the rest of our house everything else used is something wireless- laptops, notebooks, tablets, Kindles, game machines/internet gaming, cellphones, etc. I just bought them a 2nd new wireless printer, gladly the wife gets good deals on stuff from the computer people who run her office's systems. Im going to have to start charging these people though for the printing paper they go thru.
 
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Desktop for the customizing and upgrading factors. Multi hard drives, Duel DVD/blue ray burners, and plenty of software to get around those pesky copy protection of DVDs and netflix or just go old school and use torrents. Cheap and easy to build. Hypothetically of course ;)
 

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Both. I use my desktop as my primary in my home office, and have the laptop on a stand above the tower. Desktop is for the heavy duty work and runs 3 monitors, while the laptop is for the light duty work and portable use. My laptop is more a portable than a laptop, weighing in at 9+ pounds, but it's got a 3GB video card and 12GB of RAM. ($900 will buy a lot of laptop if you look hard enough)

When in my office, I use Synergy so that I can use a single keyboard and trackball between them, so it's pretty seamless. I sometimes forget that I can't drag windows from one computer to the other... but it's definitely nice to be able to copy/paste between them. So I don't lose notifications (I like loud music when I work sometimes), I have the audio out from the laptop hooked into the line-in on the desktop.
 

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