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A huge upshot to using a laptop is you have a built-in UPS and KVM.

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[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

laptops are pretty power efficient tho

[–] Anivia@feddit.org 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Not 15 year old laptops. Like that's 32nm Sandy bridge or even older

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 3 points 5 hours ago

i use many sandy bridge laptops (mostly xx20 thinkpads) and they seem pretty ok to me. newer machine is probably much more efficient but these machines are not that power hungry compared to desktops.