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Posted by Peter T. Breuer on November 19, 2005, 4:16 am
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lars@fake.com wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:56:18 +0100, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
>>- you can perfectly well log in to the desktop through the
>>laptop and do heavy computing on the desktop while your
>>gui is handled by the laptop.
> With what type of jobs can you do that?
Any type. It's merely a question of which cpu and o/s does the job.
> I often find that the heaviest stuff I do is occasional
> graphics work. Manipulating large map pictures, actually.
> I don't think running the graphics program on my
> desktop, from a laptop, would give me access to
> the desktops better resources? Or would it?
It would - unless your o/s does graphics rendering in its kernel. Mine
uses a networked protocol to drive graphics, and there is a GB straight
unshared ethernet link between the two.
Peter
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