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Netting Your Notebooks?

Posted November 20, 2009 8:12 AM

As you get ready to purchase the next computers for your team, what form will they take? Vast storage networks provide access to your data from anywhere in the world. Will you opt for desktop equipment as you always have? Forego the "luxury" of local mass storage? When you need a portable PC, will you be satisfied with one that lacks features you've come to expect, like optical drives, even if touchscreens make interfaces more user-friendly? How will other members of your team respond? Will they be willing to make the switch, or will they remain loyal to more full-featured equipment?

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11/20/2009 4:01 PM

I will most likely NEVER avail myself or my team of "Vast Storage Networks"- I have no desire to put myself or my team in the position of relying on some stranger to insure the security and integrity of information critical to our operation (OK, I already leave all of my e-mail on the net, but note that I specified information CRITICAL to the operation).

Future computers will most likely be a mix of netbooks, notebooks and a few desktops- notebooks still don't seem to meet the graphics requirements of some of the sophisticated analysis software we use. NVIDIA may be changing that, but we haven't found what we are looking for.

Netbooks will be used for traveling, when one does not need a full suite of capabilities at hand. More and more of our day-to-day work is migrating to notebooks...

You will never find us in the cloud. Too much like how things used to be in the old days...

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