Re: Sorry, but I do not nderstand.
Serious use can be at home, that's what my children call "work" when I'm doing such things as trying to write nice but tricky lockfree data structure or write another gcc patch.
Finally starting to get some of the real needs and requirements out. So you have a family and live in a tiny London loft that doesn't have space for a large book. Whilst there is nothing we can offer about the space constraint other than to suggest you move, we can offer some guidance on the IT.
Firstly, sharing a PC for (paid) work and family (ie. children) doesn't work long-term. Save yourself a major headache and determine how to get yourself the equivalent of a machine per person, so that ALL of you can do your favourite thing (or important stuff like homework) at the same time and be able to keep working (albeit at a reduced level) when something goes wrong. This obviously means that you will need to also address the keyboard/display issue, which comes back to your space problem.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
