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I have a few old laptops as servers at home. It’s great because they have a (limited) built-in battery backup, and a keyboard and screen are there if you need a
by cbsks 4y ago
I have a few old laptops as servers at home. It’s great because they have a (limited) built-in battery backup, and a keyboard and screen are there if you need a local terminal.
- vladvasiliu 4y agoMy biggest issue with those is that sometimes their cooling solution is ridiculously bad. They have a next-to-nonexistent heat sink, so the fan needs to spin like crazy to cool it down. Bonus points for the fan stopping from time to time, so it has to spin even faster than it would need to if it were running all the time. Had this is an older HP laptop. My newer one lets me configure it so that the fan spins all the time, so it's very quiet as long as it doesn't do anything.
- lostlogin 4y agoA fanless laptop sounds attractive for this. Dropping the money on a MacBook Air seems wasteful though, and I’m not aware of other fanless laptops.
- Tade0 4y agoHere you go: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPad-X13s-G1-Laptop-review-Introducing-the-Qualcomm-Snapdragon-8cx-Gen-3.665008.0.html https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPad-X13s-G1-Laptop... Although IIRC it's more expensive than the Air.