LaptopšŸ’» vs DesktopšŸ–„ WFH Edition ā€“ The BIMsider

Like many (most) people I have been working from home for the last couple of years. However, unlike most, this was my plan, as when I started at BIM Track in January 2020 I was hired as a full-time remote worker. Now the other side of that plan back in January 2020 was that I would be doing lots of travel to conferences and tradeshows worldwide to talk about BIM, AEC workflows and of course BIM Trackā€¦well that didnā€™t really play out as expected. Nevertheless, this combination of full-time WFH and travel was why I was given a laptop as my work computer, but in hindsight maybe a desktop would have been a better call?

In the Beginning

Letā€™s start with what I do with my computer on a day-to-day basis. This will give a baseline for what would be required of a laptop or desktop that I use daily.

However even before the what, I want to say that this post has been made possible by the fine people at Dell and their partners AMD & Intel who provided me with the…

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