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You could always connect a monitor to it. I know you can connect almost any peripheral to it. Like an external hard drive for example.
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Everah wrote:You could always connect a monitor to it. I know you can connect almost any peripheral to it. Like an external hard drive for example.
Kind of defeats the purpose, don't you think? Unless of course your desk space is limited to 1'x1' ;)
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I could hook up my usb 250gb external hdd and my new 22" monitor, and 2.1 speaker system, and use it for my tower

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Definitely very interesting. I bet in a few years, looking back we'll laugh at the time when our notebooks had those weighty, energy-slurping HD's and CDROM/dvd-players in them and had batteries only lasting 3-4 hours.
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I've found a nice balance having an XP machine with 2x2407's & lots of storage, plus a fairly portable Ubuntu Thinkpad for the road / Starbucks / whatever.

I also know more than a few people who use either the 15" or 17" MBP with a 2407,kb&m at work, thus splitting the difference between performance/portability and DRY hardware.

It's always a trade-off, whatever works for you I guess.
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Kieran Huggins:

Off topic a bit: which thinkpad do you have?

Ubuntu working well on it?
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I have a z60m, Ubuntu has always worked great, with the exception of the last two minor kernel revisions. x.14 and x.14-rt both have suspend/resume issues for some reason. I just use x.13 and call it a day.
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Kieran Huggins wrote:I have a z60m, Ubuntu has always worked great, with the exception of the last two minor kernel revisions. x.14 and x.14-rt both have suspend/resume issues for some reason. I just use x.13 and call it a day.
Yea, once I close my dell inspiron 6000 laptop (not limited to thinkpads I guess) I am forced to reboot, which is really annoying. Is there a way to downgrade revisions?
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previously installed kernels are offered to me by GRUB - not sure how to install older ones if you've installed recently :-(
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