The Workstation Debate

You know, its really nice to see that others are going through the same types of consternation that I am!

Trent@TheSimpleDollar talks about his personal debate over the type of workstation to get now that he is writing full-time.

Personally, I'm running into a similar situation. For years, both my wife and I have had workstations at home. About two years ago, Vikki's workstation went away as she started to share mine (saying she didn't need to spend so much time on the computer). Then, as I've worked with various companies, I've simply used their computing resources at home. My old workstation had been limping along with a bad motherboard for about two years... and finally, we replaced it when we moved to Saint Marys with a decent, low-price computer with a PentiumD processor. I'm now getting to the point where I'm going to need the processing power for photo editing... and the laptop that I'm using at home isn't going to cut the mustard. Couple that with the want for more screen real estate (I got used to using three monitors for a while) and I really want a nice desktop workstation. There are two problems with that though. (1) The "technology" money that I have set aside is currently earmarked for starting a small business (2) I don't have anyplace to put a multi-monitor (even LCD) workstation in our house without expensive mounts and tricky "hiding" techniques that would add hundreds of dollars to the cost of the setup. Bleh. Guess I'll keep thinking about it for the time being.