I bought a second Lenovo Carbon X1 from www.tier1online.com because it was £200 even though it has a lower specification than my other one.
Then I moved my personal documents onto the new computer. Now I have to choose which one to switch on before I do any work and I sometimes have to send emails to myself to pass information between the different roles that I perform (the different versions of ‘me’).
This slows me down and I think it’s useful in terms of helping me to prepare for the role that I am about to perform.
Later on I realised that this could have been achieved more cheaply by creating a second user on the original computer and that I could have avoided the need to send emails between versions of myself (and I realise that there are other technological solutions that would manage this too, like networking) but right now I think that the physicality of having separate computers is particularly helpful.
The specification is:
Grade B
Processor Intel® Core™ i5-3427U, 2.30 GHz
Memory 8 GB
Hard Disk 128GB
Operating System Windows 10 Home