On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 2:53 PM, George Geller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My approach is to buy a relatively inexpensive used Thinkpad T series (I > have a T-30 at present), run all the fancy stuff on a server, and > connect using VNC or NX. > > The Thinkpad T series have good support for Linux. You get more bang for > your buck by spending the money on a good server. Also, the server is > less likely to walk away than a laptop. > > George >
Well that's the goal later... When after 5-6 years of not having my own place I finally get a place where I can plop down a server that has hardware virtualization and 8GB of RAM... And maybe before that and maybe just after that get one of these Kewl EeePC type machines so when you are just moving around to a meeting or you need something for diagnostics or some such task... BUT right now one of the 3 items I need is a laptop that can do a little bit of the server side and a little bit of the low end side. I'm thinking that between the three types of devices I can sandbox all the things I want to try out. Maybe I didn't mention but my 6 year old laptop I am on right now has lost the ability to light up the LCD and I am using an external monitor right now. In addition I am running Knoppix because the FC8 on the laptop with the non-lighting monitor won't output to the external monitor like Knoppix will. So at this point I want to be as cost effective as possible with the virtualization proviso, AND take a step forward from this unit that has a Pentium 4 Mobile CPU w/ 768MB of RAM. Like I mentioned the 3rd unit is less than the other two but it is also >=$200 dollars less than the other two. I think I have a handle on this but any thoughts are appreciated. TIA, RBW -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
