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PCs in the Living Room?

Posted by Cliff on from the comfortable-and-portable-yet-unobtrusive dept.

mwebert asks: "OK. I figure a large number of my fellow Slashdot readers have encountered this same scenario, so please respond. Right now, we keep our Dell Inspiron notebook on the corner of our coffee table in the center of our living room, accessing our home wireless network, and allowing the user to see the TV and multitask their little heart out. (Yay, IMDB!) That said, sitting on the edge of the couch (or worse, the floor) is getting old fast. Of course, I could get a true desk, but I don't want it to face the wall or corner, and I don't want it to turn the decor of my living room into a dentist's office reception area. I'm looking for a handsome (yet unobtrusive and functional) rolling workstation, preferably with a shelf/drawer or two. I've checked out http://www.anthro.com/ - but their offerings look pretty utilitarian, don't they? Any other ideas?"

7 of 78 comments (clear)

  1. IKEA by LostCauz · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.ikea.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Prod uctDisplay?catalogId=10101&storeId=12&productId=11 533&langId=-1&parentCats=10121*10390

    Boom.

  2. Re:Laptop by Aeiri · · Score: 3, Insightful

    He said he's using a laptop/notebook computer.

    Wow, I must be blind.

    I don't see what the problem is, then. If it's a laptop, you don't have to sit on the edge of the couch, you can pick it up and put it in your lap! Hence, laptop...

  3. All sorts of stuff. by Halfbaked+Plan · · Score: 3, Funny

    I have a pile of Dell Optiplex mini-tower machines in the living room. The pile of Beige G3 Macintoshes has been moved to the second bedroom (storage room). There's also a dual Pentium 3 Proliant server (rackmount version, kitchen chair mounting method) in the living room.

    Isn't this Slashdot? What's with 'living room decor' type questions? The important question is wether the living room should have a raised floor or not.

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  4. Simple by clone22 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just make a table out of fedex boxes, the cable spool of the new millennium.

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  5. Better coffee table by Nutria · · Score: 3, Informative

    At an "unfinished furniture" store, we (wife & I) found a coffee table where the "upper flat part" of the table is on spring-loaded hinges.

    Thus, if you are sitting at the edge of the sofa, you lift up the top of the table, and it pivots up to you.

    Very handy.

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  6. White Trash Coffee Table by Anne_Nonymous · · Score: 3, Informative

    Y'all need a white trash coffee table, boy. Whoo-hoo! You c'n get 'em in a variety of styles an' prices, an' they look plum elegant in most any doublewide.

  7. Re:Um. Simple. by Seumas · · Score: 3, Funny

    Since about the time I decided I was going to go with "Utilitarian Male" decorative motif. :)

    And yes, every female that ever enters the abode threatens to (re)decorate the place.

    And no, I don't let 'em. :)

    And yes - I'm single.
    And yes - I get laid.
    And yes - I like being single.
    And yes - I like spending money on toys rather than dropping $5,000 on a decorative fucking lamp.