Gadgets & Technology
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
New computer
I am looking for a new laptop. I have a laptop at home, but it's a gaming laptop (thanks, DH...) and about the least portable device. I am looking for something small, yet powerful. I want to be able to remote access into work and run our programs, which include some industry specific applications, on it. It would not be my main computer, but rather something for when I am on the road. On a typical day, from my workstation in the office, I am running Outlook, Excel, and 2 accounting programs simultaneously. I am also flipping back and forth between several folders on our servers. Does anyone have any good recommendations of a small, yet powerful laptop with decent battery life? Also, I would be looking to use an AT&T aircard with it, if it doesn't come with one hardwired in.
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Re: New computer
I would poke around on NewEgg.com where you can search for different specs that you want and see what you like. I have an Asus laptop that's not particularly lightweight, but it's an amazingly good laptop and is still going strong after years (we did replace the battery a few weeks ago, but that's it). It's kind of a beast to travel with, but I still do it.
You could probably use a netbook + remote desktop to run all those apps off of your home computer (where your home computer is doing the processing and your netbook is just doing the display). That would be your cheapest and most lightweight option. But if you want to run all those programs actually off of the netbook, it probably isn't quite what you'd want. You'd also need to make sure you can setup the connections to your remote workstations securely, so make sure you check with your employer on policies, guidelines, and required equipment to remote access.
As a favor to your company's IT support, I suggest you call your helpline or service desk and *ask* them whether you can remote into your work computers from your home computer, *before* you go out and buy this machine.
Most organizations will not allow this and have firewalls, etc set up to prevent it. You will not be able to crack these firewalls, and incoming activity is monitored 24/7/365 so they will be able to find out where and when these incoming attempts are, and deduce who is doing this from there.
If you need to be able to have this much access to your work's network and servers from home, you should ask your boss for a laptop for these occasions. It's much easier to get one from IT, that they will support if it has problems, than to do it yourself and end up with something that will not work. Most IT professionals will not compromise the integrity of their network by adding a non-corporate-owned machine to their domain. I don't know of any company that would allow you to do what you are describing above and as an IT professional myself I would not allow it for my users (in fact I have worked hard to prevent this sort of unauthorized network use in the past).
Untrue - you cannot always upgrade hardware. Netbooks are called "netbooks" for one reason - they are made for surfing the internet on. That is their intended purpose, they are not designed to run applications and store data.
If you need to run applications and store data, especially more than 1 app at a time, do not go with a Netbook.
I appreciate your insight and completely see where you are coming from. However, I am self-employed and our company is small. I am looking into these features for myself and several of the employees. I know I can RA- but currently it is set up to remote into our individual workstations vs the server directly.