Question stimulated by request for 'evidence' in another thread
Numbers are creeping up very slowly, but a few more votes would be very nice!
I think you are probably trying to take this a bit too seriously. A poll like this in a forum obviously cannot be more than a 'straw poll', akin to a 'show of hands' by the audience of a TV program or the attendees at a meeting. However, unless the sample is deliberately biased, it's always going to give more information than just a difference of opinion between two people.Well, assuming that you have representative sample of the UK population ...
That really depends upon what is meant by 'meaningful', and that will vary considerably according to the actual situation..... you are only about 1,000 votes away from have something meaningful.
I think the main issue is that times have changed.Last house I had set up a wired lan and we used the desk top from the lap top, but this house never bothered, as yet. I hate the lap top mouse, so always use a plugged in mouse of some kind, but a standard desk is not deep enough to have a monitor, lap top and key board, so if I need to choose between two monitors and two key boards then two monitors every time.
Well, yes, some 'work use' (perhaps often as for electricians?) requires a laptop to be used as a laptop (i.e. with few, if any, external things plugged into it, or connected to it wirelessly) - but, in terms of the big picture, probably most 'work/business use' is done at a desk, so having external keyboards/monitors becomes more practical and, in many cases, desirable.At work main use for the laptop was to interrogate a PLC, or alter the program, they had a hard life as the cabinet was not always in best location, being able to sit down while using it was unusual.
I think you may have misread or misinterpreted what I wrote because I was ssuggesting that that sort of 'work use' might well be applicable to electricians (as well s other groups of workers) - in contrast with the majority of 'business use' of laptops which I imagine is with the device on a desk/table.So lying on your back, with laptop on chest while you put a bit of card over a sensor to see if working is not normal use of a laptop for electricians?
Interestingly, several work hats ago - when laptops didn't exist, and portables were more correctly "luggable" and eye-wateringly expensive - even by Apple pricing standards (we sold and supported Apple computer back then). We had a client who had a need for "transportable" computing, but not really "mobile". A Mac LC suited him nicely - he had keyboard, mouse, and monitor at home and office - and just stuck the LC in his briefcase.When 'business users' do that, they will quite frequently plug in (or connect wirelessly) external keyboards, monitors and mice (individually or via some sort of 'docking station') but, as I've said in other threads, in my experience, few people seem to do that (other than the mouse) when using the laptop for 'personal/domestic/pleasure' purposes.
With a previous work hat on, you must have been working for one of our competitors then. Our candle moulding machines weren't that sophisticatedMay be that's why I got into trouble for state of laptop when wax from candle making plant fell into it, it was scented wax for making candles so laptop smelt good at least.
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