Old office firesale OEM Dell optiplex 5040 w/ i7 -6700 chipset
Upgraded with extra ram and nvme. No GPU.
Dual monitor setup (one 5:4 for that pre 2010 vibe)
Mint with Cinnamon. Programs - Yoshimi, CMUS, xed, htop and Ollama running Llava:7b in cool-retro-term.
Me: ”If you don’t game
on your desktop, then what’s the pointin having one?“They aren’t wrong IMO - if you don’t do anything that requires a lot of processing power or really need a lot of slots for peripherals, PCI cards and drives, you might as well connect your external display, keyboard and mouse to a laptop. It gives you the option to take the entire thing with you, and a lot of people have spare laptops anyway.
I know plenty of people who don’t even use their laptop much because they’re doing everything on their phones or game consoles.