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Re: lower power PCs

Subject: Re: lower power PCs
From: Lewis Gardner <lgardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 15:02:11 -0400
Newsgroups: comp.home.automation
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Robert Green wrote:

> I am seriously thinking of using a laptop with an identical spare.
> With a USB hub and 1TB external drives, there's little I
> can't do except add expansion cards.

Use a Dell D series laptop and a D/Dock and you can have one half-height
standard PCI slot.

A D600 and D/Dock should cost around $400 on eBay. Lots of bang for the
buck! No need for a spare since parts are as common as dirt. But if you
decide to have a spare the swappable drive caddys on the D series would
allow you to use the spare as a normal laptop and simply swap drives if
needed.

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