What does your desk look like?
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@chrisl said in What does your desk look like?:
@nerdydad yeah the apps being self-contained kinda limit the necessity of a mouse. I thought that'd be a limiting factor, but it hasn't been an issue thus far.
Keyboard shortcuts really help, I can switch apps via Cmd + tab, and most apps display any available shortcuts if you hold down Cmd within the app.
That's not TOO bad, until you want to edit a lot of text.
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@chrisl said in What does your desk look like?:
@wrx7m i still have my fully functional W10 laptop at home, it just doesn't come into the office anymore with me. No files in storage, everything via cloud.
Just need to figure out how to set up Outlook to access my work email and we'd be all set. I don't believe the iOS Outlook app allows for POP, but there has to be a workaround.
You have POP email at work? If so, doesn't the native non-Outlook app do that well?
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@scottalanmiller True. I was able to write an article for our blog entirely on the iPad yesterday, containing multiple links, etc. Wasn't too bad to deal with.
Spreadsheets are a different story, however.
Mileage may vary based on type of work, obviously, but it's been a smooth transition for me so far.
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@scottalanmiller Trying to keep work separate from personal as much as possible and don't want that tied to my account. About to reconfigure work email as IMAP to make it easier to use the Outlook app.
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@chrisl said in What does your desk look like?:
@scottalanmiller True. I was able to write an article for our blog entirely on the iPad yesterday, containing multiple links, etc. Wasn't too bad to deal with.
Spreadsheets are a different story, however.
Mileage may vary based on type of work, obviously, but it's been a smooth transition for me so far.
I do it all the time. From the Marketing side it's where I spend most of my time anyway.
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@minion-queen I think the biggest benefit is that my bag got a lot lighter
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@chrisl said in What does your desk look like?:
@scottalanmiller True. I was able to write an article for our blog entirely on the iPad yesterday, containing multiple links, etc. Wasn't too bad to deal with.
Spreadsheets are a different story, however.
Mileage may vary based on type of work, obviously, but it's been a smooth transition for me so far.
I find that just correcting spelling is impossible on the iOS devices.
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@chrisl said in What does your desk look like?:
@scottalanmiller Trying to keep work separate from personal as much as possible and don't want that tied to my account. About to reconfigure work email as IMAP to make it easier to use the Outlook app.
It doesn't tie to the account, it still keeps the separate in the app.
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@chrisl said in What does your desk look like?:
@minion-queen I think the biggest benefit is that my bag got a lot lighter
That's where a Chromebook wins big time. Fixes the mouse issues, lighter than an iPad, no clunky keyboard to deal with, longer battery life, etc.
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@scottalanmiller said in What does your desk look like?:
@chrisl said in What does your desk look like?:
@minion-queen I think the biggest benefit is that my bag got a lot lighter
That's where a Chromebook wins big time. Fixes the mouse issues, lighter than an iPad, no clunky keyboard to deal with, longer battery life, etc.
What chromebook are you running again?
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@nerdydad said in What does your desk look like?:
@scottalanmiller said in What does your desk look like?:
@chrisl said in What does your desk look like?:
@minion-queen I think the biggest benefit is that my bag got a lot lighter
That's where a Chromebook wins big time. Fixes the mouse issues, lighter than an iPad, no clunky keyboard to deal with, longer battery life, etc.
What chromebook are you running again?
Asus C201. Love it.
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@scottalanmiller I stopped following the Chromebooks when I realized they were mostly useful online. Has that changed at all?
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@scottalanmiller said in What does your desk look like?:
@chrisl said in What does your desk look like?:
@scottalanmiller yeah the screen is a tad small, that's why the upgrade to the 9.7" will be better.
I think my dual 27" are too small!
I have three monitors - 24" each... and I want at least 2 more... Ugh.. where did the mouse go now.
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@wrx7m said in What does your desk look like?:
@scottalanmiller I stopped following the Chromebooks when I realized they were mostly useful online. Has that changed at all?
No need to be online. I mean MOST computer activities today only work online. What do you do offline with any computer, other than video games? If I lose networking, I pretty much stop working anyway. My Chromebook does basically as much offline as you could possibly do offline.
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@scottalanmiller - I get your point. This is truer now than ever. However, there is still plenty that can be done while offline. Obviously, this is dependent on job function. In IT, not a whole lot.
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I've also "upgrade" to an iPad pro 10.5… it's almost weightless. I can do 95% of what I need without relying on other machines.
I also have a spare MBP13 and an HP z240 for any eventuality, like DD-ing a thumb drive or unusual stuff. The biggest part of my work is being connected to a remote ssh or rdp session, and the iPad has great clients for both protocols. The other thing I need for work like mail and browsing/web interfaces usually work, but of course I can log into some windows machine for peculiar interfaces that needs flash &co.
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@wrx7m said in What does your desk look like?:
@scottalanmiller - I get your point. This is truer now than ever. However, there is still plenty that can be done while offline. Obviously, this is dependent on job function. In IT, not a whole lot.
Any examples, though? I've never run into an issue with a Chromebook not doing something offline that my desktop would not, other than running a VM farm.
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Relatively tidier by the second as I get ready for a long weekend, while I faceroll on my KB Paradise V80 w/Matias QC experimenting in the lab with a CentOS 7/KVM & Ceph deployment.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromebook
I hate to quote them but it was the easiest thing to find mention of it.
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@wrx7m said in What does your desk look like?:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromebook
I hate to quote them but it was the easiest thing to find mention of it.
Clearly who wrote that doesn't know what they are saying. Web apps are not traditional apps in what way? Web apps work offline. I want to know what they mean by limited offline capability... that's a meaningless phrase. All computers with networking capability are limited when offline. Traditional apps and web apps both work and don't work, depending on purpose and design, when offline. MS Office 2016 is a web app, does it work offline? Google Apps work offline.
Yes, Chromebooks, like all computers since 1994, are designed to work primarily online.
Basically they just described "computers" with no information specific to the Chromebooks.
