[ale] [OT?]Latitude E-series docking station?

[Jim Kinney]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Dustin Strickland <
dustin.h.strickland at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sounds great. I've been wanting a setup like that for a while, just
> can't find it in the budget. I was thinking about getting a Lenovo
> W510 or W520 and a docking station to replace my main desktop
> machine and this laptop, but I'm a little iffy about using laptops
> for a main machine. Can't stick expansion cards in them and the
> storage can be less than reliable. Maybe if I got a second HDD bay to
> go in the optical drive space that I wouldn't use I could deal with it.
>

The W520 is a _NICE_ machine! I had one when I was at IBM and loved it.
Quad-core I7 with 16GB RAM and a really nice screen and the extended
battery. Granted I ran a ton of stuff all the time including multiple VMs
for testing so my battery life was less than 3 hours. But it's a very solid
desktop replacement.

>
> On Thu, 24 Apr 2014 07:44:24 -0400
> Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > If you feel brave, pop out the mobo and try to reflow the solder at
> > the power connector with a hair dryer on high. Or pop it in the oven
> > at 180F for 10 minutes and let it col down slowly.
> >
> > The patent for the mag-safe power connector that Apple has should be
> > expiring in the next year or so. I expect to see a flood of adapters
> > pop up.
> >
> >
>
> If only I were that brave. There's too many small caps around the
> connector; I've already looked(that's how I found out it was soldered
> to the mobo instead of done properly).
>
> I actually hadn't even heard of mag-safe connectors, but after looking
> at them it seems like a pretty good solution. I hope they catch on in
> other products; the barrel plugs they use for most laptops now weren't
> designed with use in mind, it seems.
>

They are used in all the Macbook air/pro models. A brilliant idea! I
stumbled over the power cord last night and it just mappily popped off the
laptop with out causing a repair bill. My wife stumbled over her cord on
her Dell and we had to replace the screen after the laptop hit the floor.


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