<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Dustin Strickland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dustin.h.strickland@gmail.com" target="_blank">dustin.h.strickland@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Sounds great. I've been wanting a setup like that for a while, just<br>
can't find it in the budget. I was thinking about getting a Lenovo<br>
W510 or W520 and a docking station to replace my main desktop<br>
machine and this laptop, but I'm a little iffy about using laptops<br>
for a main machine. Can't stick expansion cards in them and the<br>
storage can be less than reliable. Maybe if I got a second HDD bay to<br>
go in the optical drive space that I wouldn't use I could deal with it.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The W520 is a _NICE_ machine! I had one when I was at IBM and loved it. Quad-core I7 with 16GB RAM and a really nice screen and the extended battery. Granted I ran a ton of stuff all the time including multiple VMs for testing so my battery life was less than 3 hours. But it's a very solid desktop replacement. <br>
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On Thu, 24 Apr 2014 07:44:24 -0400<br>
Jim Kinney <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> If you feel brave, pop out the mobo and try to reflow the solder at<br>
> the power connector with a hair dryer on high. Or pop it in the oven<br>
> at 180F for 10 minutes and let it col down slowly.<br>
><br>
> The patent for the mag-safe power connector that Apple has should be<br>
> expiring in the next year or so. I expect to see a flood of adapters<br>
> pop up.<br>
><br>
><br>
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</div>If only I were that brave. There's too many small caps around the<br>
connector; I've already looked(that's how I found out it was soldered<br>
to the mobo instead of done properly).<br>
<br>
I actually hadn't even heard of mag-safe connectors, but after looking<br>
at them it seems like a pretty good solution. I hope they catch on in<br>
other products; the barrel plugs they use for most laptops now weren't<br>
designed with use in mind, it seems.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>They are used in all the Macbook air/pro models. A brilliant idea! I stumbled over the power cord last night and it just mappily popped off the laptop with out causing a repair bill. My wife stumbled over her cord on her Dell and we had to replace the screen after the laptop hit the floor.<br>
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