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To: goldworldnet who wrote (1080)	3/2/2021 12:33:00 AM
From: nicewatch	1 Recommendation Recommended By goldworldnet Respond to of 1316

It's obscene. Which makes it delicious in a perverse way! Would it even fit in my carry on? Thankfully the international airlines I fly business class stopped weighing my carry on. I ask again, what's the CG in that laptop, the damn thing could be hard-poked over the desk for those that like to poke their fingers at computer screens. For me it would always have to sit flush to a wall on a solid heavy desk, especially at that asking price. I can see the use case but it would be projects in the middle of nowhere where the extra weight and packaging of all those extra screens matters. Thinking middle of nowhere filming, and middle of nowhere mining and energy engineering projects. In my travels it's always been far easier and cheaper to bring a world class laptop workstation and then buy extra external monitors locally as needed. In some cases I can even leave the spare monitors with friends and use them again when I return next year. P.S. There's also the handheld prototype they're working on: expanscape.com

To: goldworldnet who wrote (1080)	3/2/2021 1:12:47 AM
From: nicewatch	1 Recommendation Recommended By goldworldnet Respond to of 1316

The precursor to what may be my greatest laptop ever is the Lenovo Thinkpad W700ds. I had a W701, no ds, ds stands for double screen, see attached below. I've been partial to Thinkpad workstation laptops since but they may be slipping the past few years, imo. Then there was the tri-screen Razer prototype. I got really excited about this one but it was never made. While the multiscreen laptop appeal is sexy, the reality is with robust modern ports, and especially Thunderbolt, it's easy to attach multiple monitors to a single workstation laptop, and that's before even considering docking stations which add even more options. That was true in 2010 with my original W701 and no Thunderbolt.

To: goldworldnet who wrote (1080)	3/8/2021 5:54:32 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Recommended By goldworldnet Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1316

Don't know whether anyone can help here. I've ordered a server from a local supplier (long story) and I ordered it as: 2TB m.2 drives x 3 configured as mirrored RAID array plus 1 hot spare. This is the standard configuration I use in most of the servers I use. Normally, I've just bought the parts and assembled them but for this one, the buyer's brother owns the computer supplier, yada, yada... Anyway, they have the server ready to go EXCEPT they can't find a suitable RAID controller card (I usually use Intel, but haven't used one with M.2 drives. Anyone here have an helpful input here? They seem to be unable to find an m.2 RAID card that supports booting to the RAID array. I've never used one with M.2, always SATA which acts like any other SATA. I'd like to have the redundancy, but I'm thinking about bailing on the RAID altogether. I'm not comfortable without a mirror for the boot drive, but recognize that it is probably nonessential in the era of M.2. Thanks for any suggestions, particularly if you know of a RAID card that will work with M.2 boot drives.