[colug-432] sadly, my 2012 vintage HP laptop was offered as a sacrifice

[R P Herrold]

to the Delta Airline gods.  Not intended for such, and for the 
life of me I cannot see how they got to it, but, there you are

Its display has gone cracked, with a most artistic pattern 
displayed

nice little unit -- virtualization capable, everything worked 
under Centos 7 (save possibly the camera, which I never 
tested)

My question, after a morning spend 'researching' is:  
	Does anyone know of a good replacement candidate in 
current production to run KVM / Linux on?

Criteria would include: 
	1.  an additional 2.5 in sata drive bay, beyond the 
	basic drive used for the US (I consider here that 
	there are post 2.5 in form factor ssd NAND 'm-drives' 
	-- 1.7 in form factor or such;  I have a "Brix" set 
	up with one, and it runs fine)

	2. Intel multi-core, 64 bit processor, with the 
	ability to use hardware virtualization (i.e., at least 
	the VMX bit present)

	3.  at least one hardware ethernet port

Extra points for:
	a. capable of holding ram above 16G

	b. second hardware ethernet port


One assumes that HDMI or DP video outputs, included wifi 
connectivity, and at least a couple USB ports are pretty 
standard these days

I can certainly do without a CD / DVD drive, on the assumption 
that 'booting from USB' or PXE will solve any initial install 
problem

-- Russ herrold