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

[William Yang]

I'm not sure you want to pay for it, are willing carry it (because it
weights a ton) or if the video's adequate, but such beasts certainly exist.
As a bonus, Delta probably wouldn't have broken this one. ;-)

http://www.rugged-portable.com/multi-lan-rugged-laptop-server/


On 10/05/2015 02:21 PM, R P Herrold wrote:
> 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
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William Yang
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