Re: Telecommuters: laptop or desktop?

[Jeffrey Osier-Mixon <jefro -at- mcn -dot- org>]

> I still believe in having just a laptop. I have never had to format my hard
> drive because of a piece of software corrupting my machine. As a good test
> team should have already picked those bugs up. Having 2 machines to me is
> not the best way to stopping your machine getting corrupted. Either way you
> still are having to format a hard drive.

You have more faith in software engineers than I do!  I have had to reformat hard drives twice due to corruption, one I
couldn't track down that was probably the result of a hardware mismatch, and one that was very obviously a beta version of
Netscape Communicator.  (I was working for Netscape at the time.)  Luckily I was good about keeping backups both times, in
fact both times I had a backup copy on my desktop machine.

Thanks again to all for opinions



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