<p>Would it be looked upon strangely if I were to bring a laptop and a desktop with me to college? I have my own desktop right now, and it works well, but my dad will buy me a laptop as a graduation gift. I think that having a laptop will be good because I'm a CS major and will be able to use it outside of my dorm room if I'm coding late at night and my roommate wants to sleep. At the same time, if I leave the desktop at home, no one is going to be using it, so I feel like I might as well bring it with me for gaming and in case my laptop breaks. Any opinions?</p>
<p>Why not? Might as well be over-prepared, instead of screwed in the end, I suppose.</p>
<p>maybe if you're a day trader</p>
<p>don't bring two computers, just bring the laptop. you won't have enough space in your room for all that ****.</p>
<p>if you bring 2 you might end up having to share them with your roomates and if they're jerks they'll be downloading all kinds of crap on it and doing weird stuff.</p>
<p>I'm definitely bringing two. I play a lot of PC games and while my laptop is a $2,500 dollar high-end machine, it still can't compete with the performance of my desktop. Besides, I've gotten in the habit of using several computers at once when I'm at home.</p>
<p>I don't mind if my roommate uses either of my computers occasionally, but I'm going to make passwords and such required to even turn it on so that if my roommate wants to use it, he has to ask me first.</p>
<p>Well I really really want to take my desktop, along with my laptop, to my dorm room, but my parents refuse to let me ship it off. Besides it is too big. So I've only got the old laptop for email, internet, office, basic games, etc. If I need to do something w/ a more powerful PC, then I'll head over to a computer lab.</p>
<p>I have several friends who are taking both desktop and laptop to their colleges. I would think it would be somewhat common practice.</p>
<p>I took two - my main is a desktop, but I dropped a few hundred dollars on a cheap-o bargain basement Toshiba laptop and stuck a 50$ wireless card in it.</p>
<p>Worked for what I needed it - group projects, aim in dry lectures, posting here when I should be listening etc ;)</p>
<p>It's a great idea. Just lock your desktop with a password so nosy roommates wont be tempted to touch it.</p>
<p>And that way, you'll have a way to backup files and you'll always have a computer no matter where you are on campus.</p>
<p>I am doing both and no-one is touching either. The roomate probobly wont feel to good about the linux laptop (IBM T23 that I got off a lease return for a really good price) and they wont be entering the password for the desktop.</p>
<p>For a computer savvy person, 2 seems like the best choice. I get the processing power of my desktop and the wireless portability of a laptop without making any comprimise.</p>
<p>I use the free SyncBack to sync files between them easily so I always have the same things and a nice backup.</p>
<p>meh... I was thinking of bringing 2 desktops and a laptop >.>... head on over to hardforums.com ... look at the crazy set ups ... (some of them are not dorms though..)..</p>
<p>Here was my plan...<br>
- Two Desktop Towers (slackware / winxp)
- I would be using dual monitors =-/ (crt 19" and lcd 19".. might have to do something about the crt)..
one of them would be connected to a kvm switch.. (along with the keyboard and mouse)...</p>
<p>Then the laptop can just be placed anywhere and only be used on the go....</p>
<p>I better be able to work out bringing Three computers.... I really only consider it two since I never really even think a laptop counts (as far as space goes).... </p>
<p>Someway or another I'll be doing that.. even if I have to get a shuttle for the linux machine.</p>
<p>I really wonder how the MIT (or any other major tech school) folks go about it..</p>
<p>Well, I'm headed to Carnegie Mellon and it's pretty geeky there. :) Some of the dorms are really small, too.</p>
<p>Nice, what are you majoring in?</p>
<p>Anyways.. this other thread might be more useful: <a href="http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=901297&highlight=college%5B/url%5D">http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=901297&highlight=college</a></p>
<p>as someone put it there "it's usually not a matter of space but of time".</p>
<p>I go to MIT. And I definitely have two computers (actually I'm looking into getting a third...)</p>
<p>Laptops don't take up that much space. Might as well get a powerful desktop and a light laptop.</p>