RE: Telecommuters: laptop or desktop?

["Andrew Dugas" <dugas -at- intalio -dot- com>]

There's a third modality you haven't considered: working on a
client-supplied laptop. Though employed full-time, I recently did a little
consulting on the side for an old employer. (With full consent of my current
employer, of course.)

I worked at home using a laptop loaded with:

* the software product I was documenting
* Frame and the previous Frame (and image files) of the document I was
updating
* Webworks and the previous Webworks projects
* the set of corporate fonts

This ensured that the new docs would have the required look and feel and
that I had an installed and working version of the software product. They
saved a few hours of consulting fees that would have gone to installation
and setup, getting connected, etc.

At home, I hooked up a mouse, keyboard, and my big monitor. No problem -
just like working on a big ol' desktop machine. These newfangled laptops
pack a lot of processing power and memory.



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