Re: best office/home office setup - the telecommuter

2009-07-26 Thread Jarod Wilson
On 07/26/2009 12:20 AM, Bill Ricker wrote: On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Gordon Marx gcm...@gmail.com mailto:gcm...@gmail.com wrote: Incidentally, I haven't been able to find a dock that has two DVI outputs -- while I appreciate that the dock has 1 DVI and 1 VGA, I'd really

Re: best office/home office setup - the telecommuter

2009-07-26 Thread Bill Ricker
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Jarod Wilson ja...@wilsonet.com wrote: The Advanced Dock for T60 W/T500 has slot for pci-mini to add second graphics adapter, wwhich would get you the secondd dvi. What kind of slot? I presume its the same Advanced Dock that I have for my T61. The slot is

Re: best office/home office setup - the telecommuter

2009-07-26 Thread Jarod Wilson
On 07/26/2009 05:42 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Jarod Wilson ja...@wilsonet.com mailto:ja...@wilsonet.com wrote: The Advanced Dock for T60 W/T500 has slot for pci-mini to add second graphics adapter, wwhich would get you the secondd

Re: best office/home office setup - the telecommuter

2009-07-25 Thread Bill Ricker
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com wrote: Moving to a new employment position, I'm once again faced with purchasing some computer equipment. I'm wondering what hardware, software and combination people like the best for working seamlessly in the

Re: best office/home office setup - the telecommuter

2009-07-25 Thread Bill Ricker
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Gordon Marx gcm...@gmail.com wrote: Incidentally, I haven't been able to find a dock that has two DVI outputs -- while I appreciate that the dock has 1 DVI and 1 VGA, I'd really rather have 2 DVI, or even DisplayPort (but I'm not sure anyone is THAT cool yet).

Re: best office/home office setup - the telecommuter

2009-07-24 Thread Drew Van Zandt
I find that a desktop is better than a laptop, for the home office bit at least. I don't have to wait for boot/shutdown, keep dragging power supplies out, etc. --DTVZ On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com wrote: Moving to a new employment position, I'm

Re: best office/home office setup - the telecommuter

2009-07-24 Thread John Abreau
I just bought a couple Thinkpads for a couple of our engineers, and one thing I ran into was a difference in supported screen resolutions. The T500 is 1680x1050, with no other options, whereas the W500 is available as either 1680x1050 or 1900x1200. My engineers explicitly asked for 1900x1200, so

Re: best office/home office setup - the telecommuter

2009-07-24 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:26 PM, John Abreauj...@blu.org wrote: I just bought a couple Thinkpads for a couple of our engineers, and one thing I ran into was a difference in supported screen resolutions.  The T500 is 1680x1050, with no other options, whereas the W500 is available as either

Re: best office/home office setup - the telecommuter

2009-07-24 Thread Mark Ellison
I will chime in on this topic. In the last few months I've purchased a Lenovo W500 and a T500, a docking station and external monitor as well as a Lenovo M57 desktop that I run headless as a Fedora 11 development platform. I connect to the M57 using tightvnc. The W50 also runs Fedora 11 like a

Re: best office/home office setup - the telecommuter

2009-07-24 Thread Mark Ellison
One other not regarding the docking station- it comes with its own power supply! On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Mark Ellison elli...@ieee.org wrote: I will chime in on this topic. In the last few months I've purchased a Lenovo W500 and a T500, a docking station and external monitor as well

Re: best office/home office setup - the telecommuter

2009-07-24 Thread Alan Johnson
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Drew Van Zandtdrew.vanza...@gmail.com wrote: I find that a desktop is better than a laptop, for the home office bit at least.  I don't have to wait for boot/shutdown, keep dragging power supplies out, etc. OT I apologize in advance if I am preaching to the

Re: best office/home office setup - the telecommuter

2009-07-24 Thread Alan Johnson
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile)g...@freephile.com wrote: Moving to a new employment position, I'm once again faced with purchasing some computer equipment.  I'm wondering what hardware, software and combination people like the best for working seamlessly One of these

Re: best office/home office setup - the telecommuter

2009-07-24 Thread Drew Van Zandt
It's a fairly high-power machine; however, it is in regular use by upwards of a dozen people, though only I use it as a desktop (and that is a concession to waste-avoidance; servers should not ordinarily have desktop software running on them). When it's possible to have 3 TB of RAID storage in my