Recently I swapped out the old Dell machine that was running our home server and replaced it with my til-then desktop, which was just a whitebox but with some better specs.

My desktop is now my Dell Inspiron 1520, and I took the opportunity to plug in the old monitor and get a dual screen setup :) I have dualscreens at work and it's hard to come back to a single screen once you're used to your terminal in one window, browser in the other.

Hooray for the nvidia-settings app which handles the Twinview setup very easily! Sorry opensource :)

Anyway the setup is pretty neat, and minimalistic, and that's what I like about it.

I had a habit of leaving my desktop on all the time, and with the laptop I seem to be more likely to power it off after use and conserve power. The only machine that really needs to stay on all the time is the server.

Ironically I bought my eeePC 1000HE around the same time, and it's becoming my main machine pretty quick. There are times, though, when you want to sit yourself down behind a bit of extra screen space, for instance to import these pics off the digital camera and fiddle around in Gimp.