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Anyone actually using 9300/XPS2 as a desktop?

post #1 of 26
4/28/05 at 9:32am
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Anyone?? Desktop replacement to me means hoooking up an external monitor (DVI of course), using a full size USB keyboard, an external mouse, and tucking the lappy away somewhere.

I wish there was a power button on the outside somewhere (with screen closed). That way the only time I would actually open my 9300 is if I'm on travel with it. True desktop replacement!
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post #2 of 26
4/28/05 at 9:39am
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Originally Posted by rimshaker
Anyone?? Desktop replacement to me means hoooking up an external monitor (DVI of course), using a full size USB keyboard, an external mouse, and tucking the lappy away somewhere.

I wish there was a power button on the outside somewhere (with screen closed). That way the only time I would actually open my 9300 is if I'm on travel with it. True desktop replacement!
Desktop replacment to me meant I DIDN'T have to deal with an external monitor/keyboard/speakers and the associated wire mess. I still use my MX700 wireless mouse but that's it.
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post #3 of 26
4/28/05 at 10:59am
Logitech Dinovo Media Desktop and XPS G2, no external monitor (the internal is gorgeous).

Desktop? Not for me, not anymore.
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post #4 of 26
4/28/05 at 11:02am
As soon as I got my 9300 I sold pretty much everything from my desktop. Popped in the Audigy 2 notebook for 5.1 sound and kept my logitech MX700 mouse. Everything else pretty much went.

It's amazing the power crammed into these babies.
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post #5 of 26
4/28/05 at 11:32am
Yes, my 9300 replaced my old desktop, but like bigddybn, the reason I wanted a notebook was so I wouldn't have to deal with wires all over the place so other than a wireless mouse, wireless calculator/keypad and an external USB hard drive (which isn't always hooked up), I don't have anything extra added to my 9300.
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post #6 of 26
4/28/05 at 12:05pm
XPS is my virgin machine I keep it pristine as possible software wise still use my desktop as the whore to test software and if its suitable I give it to my baby
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post #7 of 26
4/28/05 at 12:10pm
Well, I sold my desktop to buy this 9300, but I don't hook up an external monitor. Just plugging in a mouse for now (my MX900 should come in soon). Does that qualify as a DTR?
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post #8 of 26
4/28/05 at 12:44pm
I just built a desktop rig (Athlon 3200+ and ATi X800XL) in February and now that I have my beautiful 9300 I'm thinking of selling it. I can Hook up my 2005FPW monitor to the 9300 and I would have two gorgeous screens!

- JOhn
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post #9 of 26
4/28/05 at 2:47pm
I use the XPS2 as my laptop. It actually worked pretty well while waiting for my professor to show up outside of the classroom. Didn't notice it getting too hot, although I will admit that I'm coming from an older Uniwill Pentium 4 laptop. That thing was heavy, hot, short on battery life and noisy! (Relative to the XPS2 of course... )
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post #10 of 26
4/28/05 at 3:09pm
Well for me...it's easier too look at 1920x1200 on this nice LCD screen compared to my CRT monitor which gets kinda blurry and must run at 60hz to operate at 1600x1200. In fact, my laptop screen is bigger than my CRT screen...they are about the same height, but my XPS 2 has the extra real estate on the sides.
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post #11 of 26
4/28/05 at 3:15pm
The 9300 is my new desktop. With a wireless mouse added on I don't miss my old desktop at all.
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post #12 of 26
4/28/05 at 4:28pm
I haven't turned on my desktop since I bought my laptop. LOL
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post #13 of 26
4/28/05 at 6:18pm
"As a desktop."

Well, let's see. It's the only computer I use now. I don't know how much more of a "replacement" it could be.
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post #14 of 26
4/28/05 at 6:28pm
I am using it now with two 2001FP LCD's on it and external keyboard / mouse & soundblaster audigy notebook. I also have my canon i9900 and scanner attached to it. I then disconnect it at the end of the day, go inside (i have an office attached to my house), and play World of Warcraft on it all night!!! I prefer to put the keyboard wear on my external keyboard.
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post #15 of 26
4/28/05 at 9:03pm
Y'all might think I'm sick, but my XPS is my secondary comptuer right now. My desktop is about a year and a half old , much slower, and everything else, but...

I like having a computer on all the time. Something I don't want to do with my laptop. My desktop is soley for my computer, so I have a dual 19" CRT set-up. Which is nice if I want to use the XPS because I plug in one of the monotirs to the laptop, and have three screens, one for my desktop, the other for my laptop, and the XPS display. Plus as someone mentioned, my desktop serves as middle ground for anything I download/install. It's my "junk" folder that holds all the random crap I may accumulate online or elsewise.

I live with a corded external mouse and keyboard, and at any one time have about seven different plugs into the XPS at any one time (USB switch that allows me to share keyboards between the computers), a mouse, ethernet, power, vido out, firewire, and line-out.

Now people might htink I'm crazy after spending a hefty chunk of change, but it is going to be invaluable on the road when I am away, which iis why I purchased the thing.
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post #16 of 26
4/28/05 at 9:12pm
ME!

using an external keyboard external mouse even an external HDD
but no LCD
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post #17 of 26
4/28/05 at 10:23pm
I leave my desktop on most of the time and just use Remote Access to work on things I haven't migrated to the XPS 2. I love running two machines on the widescreeen display and I let my desktop run things in the background, so I don't tie up the notebook. I also have a firewire drive hooked into the desktop. It's great for sharing large files on both machines rather than transferring stuff over the network and using up notebook hard disk space.
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post #18 of 26
4/28/05 at 10:51pm
Bought the 9300 for my wife. She uses it for her business. My 3 other desktops are for me, and my two boys (WOW nuts). My D600 is for work, and nothing else. I really don't see myself playing Nascar 2003, and GTR (with steering wheel) on a 9300. My NEC FE2111sb 22" monitor, and TWS-2 steering wheel work well with my desktop (spec's below), but not on a 9300.

Guess I'm about the only one here that still doesn't believe laptops are quite there for a 100% desktop replacement when gaming is going to be the primary purpose.
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post #19 of 26
4/28/05 at 10:54pm
I have hardly touched my "desktop" since getting my i9300. My lappie does everything I want and more. Besides, it runs at a higher resolution (1920x1200) than my desktop screen (1600x1200... it could do 1900, but only at 60Hz and it looked like ass).

So as a desktop replacement? Absolutely. 90% of the time it's plugged in on my desk at home, while my forlorn former desktop has been relegated to email and web machine. I even hooked up my laptop to my 5.1 surround system yesterday, and really dug the results It totally qualifies as a desktop replacement, because there isn't anything I did on my desktop that I can't do better on my laptop.

Oh, with one exception. I was running a RAID array on my desktop to power the disk needs of my sound recording stuff for movie and video game soundtracks I compose. My laptop doesn't yet have the disk power I want, so I'm still reverting to my old desktop when I have to push mondo amounts of tracks. However, my old desktop doesn't have the CPU horsepower this one does, so I'm slowly "archiving" old tracks, and trying to keep working with 30 or fewer tracks at once on my new "laptop DAW".
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post #20 of 26
4/28/05 at 11:03pm
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Originally Posted by Gantua
XPS is my virgin machine I keep it pristine as possible software wise still use my desktop as the whore to test software and if its suitable I give it to my baby

haha, that's exactly how I use mine; ah desktop used to be my pride and joy now she's nothin but a two dollar software whore
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