[ale] [OT?]Latitude E-series docking station?

[dustin.h.strickland at gmail.com (Dustin Strickland)]

Sounds nice -- I'd always go with the 9 cell battery if it's available.
I'm surprised that your company gave you a laptop with a 256GB SSD in
it; do you order their equipment? :P

Anyway, what day/time do you think you would be able to meet?

On Thu, 24 Apr 2014 09:43:16 -0400
"Jeremy T. Bouse" <Jeremy.Bouse at undergrid.net> wrote:

> On 04/24/2014 08:57 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Dustin Strickland
> > <dustin.h.strickland at gmail.com
> > <mailto:dustin.h.strickland at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > 
> >     Sounds great. I've been wanting a setup like that for a while,
> > just can't find it in the budget. I was thinking about getting a
> > Lenovo W510 or W520 and a docking station to replace my main desktop
> >     machine and this laptop, but I'm a little iffy about using
> > laptops for a main machine. Can't stick expansion cards in them and
> > the storage can be less than reliable. Maybe if I got a second HDD
> > bay to go in the optical drive space that I wouldn't use I could
> > deal with it.
> > 
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> My E6510 is a Quad-Core i7 vPro with 8GB RAM and the 9-cell extended
> battery that gives me over 4 hours of battery life. This is one of my
> personal laptops, the other 2 are just Dell Inspirons.
> 
> My E7240 is a Dual-Core i5  with 8GB RAM and 256GB SS with the
> standard battery and still I get over 4 hours battery life. This is
> my work laptop provided to me.
>