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Subject: Re: [9fans] compact form server
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 10:05:09 -0800
From: Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com>
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>>if i could rip the display and keyboard out of an inexpensive laptop
>>and put it in a very thin case, i'd be satisfied.
> If you're going to rip apart an inexpensive laptop to utilise the display &
> keyboard, to attatch it
> to an inexpensive server... wouldn't it be easier to start with an
> inexpensive laptop. I presume that
> we're not setting this up for great lengths of time at any given location.
> Since AMD laptops can be
> had (relatively) cheap, I think it would be easier to use than all the work
> that he was thinking
> (especially given the connections that most laptops use for lcd...).

no, it's the other way round.  i want a very small server.  it needs
to have the same cpu/storage/memory config as the typical laptop, but
doesn't need the display or the keyboard.  it would be sufficiently
small to have a black box the size of a laptop but smaller thickness
(because no display or keyboard)