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OMG I desperately want a powerful portable PC!!! I'd even buy a big ugly "notebook" without battery. Who needs a battery? There's our phone for the go. These d
by zupa-hu 11y ago
OMG I desperately want a powerful portable PC!!! I'd even buy a big ugly "notebook" without battery. Who needs a battery? There's our phone for the go.
These days I'm playing with the idea of syncing a VM between my notebook and a powerful desktop PC for at desk use. Anyone tried it? Would it work? Virtualbox, maybe Docker?
- simcop2387 11y agoI actually have done a lot of that with one of the gigantic gaming laptops. an Alienware M18X r2 in my case. I'd love to have gotten ECC ram in it but that's the only real issue I have with it. Weighs about 20ish lbs (9kg for you non-yanks). But I've run database clusters with qemu/libvirt to learn how to set them up, but my main use of that kind of setup has been to test builds of software on other operating systems.
- zupa-hu 11y ago17 lbs, wow! :D Interesting, thanks for the input!
- simcop2387 11y agoIt's been a really interesting laptop for a lot of stuff. 3 internal 2.5" bays, you can convert the optical bay into a 4th. An mSATA bay for flash, and an express card slot that can take any pci-e 1x compatible card (pretty much everything) with the right enclosure. 2x graphics card slots with adequate cooling for everything. it's definitely a beast but i bought it entirely for that purpose. it's been great for doing CAD (though i plan on making it better) for 3d printing and also for being able to keep it up to date (aside from cpu and ram, those are already maxed out for its generation).