<div dir="ltr">Seconded on the docking station. A lot of decent refurbished Dell Latitudes on the market currently, I have an E6420 with a 2760QM, Quadro NVS 4200M, 8GB of RAM and a 250GB HDD I picked up on Ebay for about $300. another $25 for a dock. I can't speak for Lenovo or HP docks but Dells are really cheap at the moment. I'm not sure what your use case is, but I'm currently running Fedora 22 with a Un-Server 2008 R2 VM. Quad displays, each OS having 2 displays. It is a very comfortable setup and quite cheap, also without too much of the headache of tracing back ACPI events. I wouldn't rule out a docking station; since you're going to be making use of external monitors anyway why not have the laptop display as well? <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 7:16 PM, Chuck Payne <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:terrorpup@gmail.com" target="_blank">terrorpup@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Well usually I use a docking station to do that.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Sep 1, 2015 7:10 PM, "Boris Borisov" <<a href="mailto:bugyatl@gmail.com" target="_blank">bugyatl@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><div dir="ltr">There is a lot of grade B and grade C refurbished netbooks on the market. Idea is to use as cheap i3 or i5 desktop system (a.k.a. closed lid) with external monitor and peripherals. Never done this before. Now do you bypass the lid switch so the system will no go to sleep mode with lid closed?<br></div>
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