On Thu, 28 Jan 2016, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 1/27/2016 4:30 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: >> I ended up getting a Lenovo Thinkpad X200 tablet. I put Ubuntu 14.04 on >> it and copied my music library to it. It works well in the car. At >> first, I thought I would want a tablet because it would be simpler to >> operate, and thinner at the foot of a passenger. As it turns out, it's >> actually easier to use it as a laptop. What makes it work is a feature I >> had not seen on previous laptops, and that is the ability to leave the >> computer running with the lid closed. ... > > I have an older Lenovo T43 [purchased used several years ago] > whose power management software has an option for that. This is a > Windows only machine. I've not investigated what's available for > my Linux machine.
I've got an X200 running CentOS 6 with the lid closed. The only time I pop the lid open is when I want a local console, usually for rebooting into a new kernel. Laptops with a dock make great home servers because the UPS is built in. Assuming, that is, you can live without redundant disks, ECC memory, and all the other niceties of server-class hardware. :-) -- Paul Heinlein <> [email protected] <> http://www.madboa.com/ _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
