[ale] OT: Laptop as desktop

[Dustin Strickland]

Seconded on the docking station. A lot of decent refurbished Dell Latitudes
on the market currently, I have an E6420 with a 2760QM, Quadro NVS 4200M,
8GB of RAM and a 250GB HDD I picked up on Ebay for about $300. another $25
for a dock. I can't speak for Lenovo or HP docks but Dells are really cheap
at the moment. I'm not sure what your use case is, but I'm currently
running Fedora 22 with a Un-Server 2008 R2 VM. Quad displays, each OS
having 2 displays. It is a very comfortable setup and quite cheap, also
without too much of the headache of tracing back ACPI events. I wouldn't
rule out a docking station; since you're going to be making use of external
monitors anyway why not have the laptop display as well?

On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 7:16 PM, Chuck Payne <terrorpup at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well usually I use a docking station to do that.
> On Sep 1, 2015 7:10 PM, "Boris Borisov" <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> There is a lot of grade B and grade C refurbished netbooks on the market.
>> Idea is to use as cheap i3 or i5 desktop system (a.k.a. closed lid) with
>> external monitor and peripherals. Never done this before. Now do you bypass
>> the lid switch so the system will no go to sleep mode with lid closed?
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