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

[Dustin Strickland]

I've heard lots of good things about the W5?0's. I would really like
the W520's because of the Sandy Bridge processors with higher clock
speeds and the mSATA compatibility, but I'll probably end up getting
the 510 instead. I do virtualization a good bit(and I would do it more
if I had something more capable than this D620, as-is I have to run VMs
remotely from home) but I don't need *too* much horsepower. I do lots of
things at once but rarely is any one task ever CPU-intensive.

Sorry to hear about your wife's Dell. I know your pain

On Thu, 24 Apr 2014 08:57:45 -0400
Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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