John Hasler wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West writes:well, if you've got the processing power, why not? surely 1 box with heavy duty hardware is cheaper power-wise than two less powerful boxes. And if you're second user is an intermittent, low-power user (browsing, email) it could probably work pretty well.Probably cheaper yet (and certainly simpler) is one "heavy duty" box and a cheap (perhaps diskless) box as an X terminal.
Actually I was after cheap *and* portable, commuting between two places with a laptop, both places having an extra monitor/keybd/mouse, since there would always be two of us.
The difference between 2 laptops or 2 monitors, etc. and 1 laptop might not be all that significant.
H