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New desktop & chromebook/netbook - Remote Desktop

  • 04-01-2018 4:31pm
    #1
    wowy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 709 ✭✭✭


    I work from home, and am based about 70% of the time in my home office, and the remainder at my parent's home office.

    I am considering replacing my laptop with a new, relatively well-specced desktop for work & personal use (I don't game but I do a bit of photo editing on photoshop & lightroom so would appreciate a lot of RAM, decent SSD and a big monitor), and also a cheap notebook or Chromebook to remotely connect to it when I'm in my parent's home office.

    I'll start a thread in the PC building forum when it comes to speccing the desktop, but just wondering what is the best approach for the notebook and remote connection.

    I don't want to save anything to the cloud, and when working at my parent's I really only need access to gmail/word/excel and my personal and work documents. I don't need to be carrying my comparatively chunky 4-year old 15" laptop to my parent's place when a much neater chromebook/notebook would do the same job.

    I don't need to buy an expensive 13" laptop when the only function on it that I would use would be the remote desktop. I've recently been reading about Cloudbooks, but haven't used one - are they really as comparable to Chromebooks as claimed? From what I can see, battery life doesn't look as good.

    I've read about and used a few chromebooks, and there affordable 13"/14" chromebooks which would easily meet my needs.

    I think my preference would be for a Chromebook, subject to knowing which of the Chrome Remote Desktop app or Windows RDP would be better, or whether for my needs it even makes a difference? Would appreciate people's opinions, cheers.


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  • #2
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    If its almost always those two locations, NUC and two monitors?


  • #3
    wowy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 709 ✭✭✭wowy


    ED E wrote: »
    If its almost always those two locations, NUC and two monitors?

    I'd never heard of an NUC before, they're quite neat-looking. However, no space really to set up another monitor etc in my folks place unfortunately. TBH, I'd also not be that confident of building one up myself. Cheers for the suggestion though.


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