I have always had a home office because working from home I found I needed a place that was isolated from the rest of the house. I did not enter the office very much after work hours, and the same in reverse. Since I am no longer working out of my home, I have not entered the home office in the last month. Also meaning my desktops in there have not been booted since. These days the last thing I want to do is come home form work and sit at a desk for any longer, and if I need to use the computer I would much rather grab my laptop and sit on the couch to crank out some code. Now I am sure that my home office will see some use in the future, some late night coding sessions, but nothing like what I used to do.
Lately I have been toying with converting over to the Mac, which again has me wondering what do I do with all of those desktops? I am not going to completely convert over to the Mac, ever, but I would be very content with two laptops that I could dock into my monitors at my desk. This is a lot simpler setup then the two desktops and two laptops I used to have to run for my job.
Lately I have been wondering if the desktop is dead. Do you use a desktop at home, or do you just use a laptop? Granted that desktops are generally more powerful than desktops, but I am not sure I need that power at home anymore.
So let me know, what kind of setup are you running at home?
So far my experience with Apple products has been limited to a fifth generation iPod, and most recently a 3G iPhone. Today I started my new job and last week they offered me the option between a PC and a Mac. I have used the Mac before and have been interested in starting to develop for OSX and the iPhone, so I thought why not and went for the Mac.
As a little bit of background at home I am running a Windows Home Server, Windows Vista Ultimate machine, a Windows Vista Ultimate laptop, and a Windows XP machine. This is what I get for developing Windows based software for most of my career.
All this morning I have been configuring, customizing, and setting up my new MacBook. So far I am really enjoying it. I really enjoy the battery life, which compared to my laptop at home is decades longer. I like the portability of the MacBook as well, which again my laptop at home is a tank. Not to neglect the software side of things, I am relatively sure that it has taken me less time to setup and configure this Mac than it has to configure my PCs in the past. Granted, the machine came preloaded with some software and updates and I am not setting up the same software, but overall I have found the process smoother and had no errors or problems along the way.
The only thing I am worried about getting tied to the Mac is having to replace my hardware at home. My monitors and keyboards would be the only thing that I could continue to use, my other machines would probably be shelved or donated. But this is all in the future, we are only on day one.
