[ale] [OT] Laptop Battery Worth It?

[Michael Trausch]

I got pretty much everything in my system on sale or rebate. Current RAM was
$45 after rebate @ Fry's. CPU was about $200. Mobo was under $100. HDD was a
drive retired out of a RAID array but still in great shape, and free. (That
said, I worry not, for I back up.)

The BD-RE burner was a gift, so I didn't pay for it. The discs, OTOH...

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On Jul 14, 2011 4:47 PM, "David Tomaschik" <david at systemoverlord.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us>
wrote:
>> On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 22:44 -0400, David Tomaschik wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us>
wrote:
>>> > On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 17:02 -0400, david w. millians wrote:
>>> >> But I'm weird, and don't really have to have that much umph anymore
in
>>> >> a laptop. It's not like I'm going to edit video on it, or compile the
>>> >> OS from scratch. :)
>>> >
>>> > I primarily do development of various types, so beefy (to a sane
>>> > upper-limit) is good.  My desktop, OTOH, can compile the entire linux
>>> > kernel version 3.0.0 (make allmodconfig) in just over 13 minutes.
>>> > That's what I do the majority of my heavy lifting with.  I cannot
>>> > _stand_ to wait for compilation to take place.
>>> >
>>> >        --- Mike
>>>
>>> What kind of hardware are you running on your desktop?
>>
>> I have an AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1055T Processor, a 2.8 GHz (safely
>> overclockable to 3.33 GHz) 6-core CPU, 8 GB of DDR3 RAM running on a
>> 870A-G54 mainboard.  I have a single 750 GB HDD, two monitors, a BD-R(E)
>> burner, and a DVD burner in this system as well.
>
> <snip>
>
>>> I'm in a place where I'm torn between the multiple-computer world, my
>>> technology desires, and my budget (and desire to reduce my
>>> eco-footprint).
>>
>> I use my desktop for pretty much everything: development, testing, and
>> experimentation in virtual machines.  I regularly draw load on this
>> system.  :)
>>
>>> I like to keep the "primary" copy of all my important work on my
>>> desktop, and my laptop just checks data in and out, if you will.  This
>>> means running my desktop 24/7, which is not exactly the most budget-
>>> or eco-friendly.
>>
>> I think that what I would like to do eventually is have a few servers,
>> for example at Linode, that work together cooperatively to provide all
>> of the services that we require that do not need to be on the LAN.  This
>> would include some things like my non-FOSS DVCS trees and the like;
>> basically data and services that need to be available from wherever I
>> am, no matter what system I am on.  That way I am less tied to the
>> desktop.
>>
>> That said, I don't know if that means I'll use my desktop any less.  It
>> is one of the few things that I am slightly irrational about:  I am
>> _way_ more comfortable working on this system than any other.  In part
>> because I have two monitors, in part because it's 100% snappy 100% of
>> the time.  (Make that 98% of the time: "make -j12" in the kernel tree
>> does tend to make it slightly jerky for a few minutes...)
>>
>> Also, the network connection is much better, being that it is gigabit
>> wired.  I use this system both for work and for personal use, so it
>> does, well, everything.
>>
>>> Additionally, I'd also like to have an environment where I can host a
>>> number of VMs for testing/experimentation.
>>
>> If you can replicate my system, I'll tell you this:  It's _amazing_ for
>> that.  Of course, to run it to full potential, you'll want a 64-bit
>> operating system on it.
>>
>>> Too many things going on at once...
>>
>> Story of many of our lives, I suspect.
>>
>>        --- Mike
>
> Maybe I'm just in the wrong place financially... no way I could afford
> that hardware. My current desktop is a C2D @ 2.0 GHz with 6GB of RAM,
> dual 1TB drives in RAID-1 and a GeForce 8400GT. It slows to a grind
> under even 2 VMs running on it, and that's with a minimal Debian
> install in the VMs.
>
> I currently have 1 Linode that I use to host my website, git
> repositories, and a few other things, but that's a mere Linode-512.
> At times, it's already stretched on RAM.
>
>
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