Got a new job ... and I need a new computer! Help!

• justincredible

  

  Get yourself a 22-24" monitor for a couple hundred bucks if you'll be sitting at a desk most of the time. I've got the 15" MBP and I'd hate it if I didn't have the dual monitor during my 8-5 job.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  BigAppleBuckeye;830756 wrote:I have never worked on PCs or laptops with large screens, so won't be an issue at all.

  
  17" to me is more of a novelty, and something I'm used to. I've had a 17" MB Pro for the past 6 years (currently brand new one) and it would be tough to go back to a 13".
• WebFire

  BigAppleBuckeye;830756 wrote:I have never worked on PCs or laptops with large screens, so won't be an issue at all.

  
  That's irrelevant when talking about eyesight. But it doesn't matter. Whatever works for ya!
  
  Plus, I've had employees here who freaked when I gave them a monitor instead of a laptop screen, but they would never go back now. You should consider a monitor and keyboard/mouse for you laptop.
• BigAppleBuckeye

  

  justincredible;830757 wrote:Get yourself a 22-24" monitor for a couple hundred bucks if you'll be sitting at a desk most of the time. I've got the 15" MBP and I'd hate it if I didn't have the dual monitor during my 8-5 job.

  WebFire;830773 wrote:That's irrelevant when talking about eyesight. But it doesn't matter. Whatever works for ya!
  
  Plus, I've had employees here who freaked when I gave them a monitor instead of a laptop screen, but they would never go back now. You should consider a monitor and keyboard/mouse for you laptop.

  
  Not bad ideas, I will see how it goes, but it's an easy fix if I can't take the smaller monitor. I will travel a lot too and much of my time is spent on the phone or with clients (so I am not constantly on the computer), so that factored in as well.