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You're right, a belkin would work great on the laptop as well. The
problemis the hardware connected to the belkin. I can't take the second
computer home, to my office, to meetings or just break it out in the
hall when waiting on someone.
Thus spake Courtney Thomas (ccthomas at joimail.com):
> I know of no reason a Belkin would not be as functionally satisfactory
> for a laptop as desktop except it's bulky vis-a-vis the laptop and
> requires power.
>
> So, I would guess VMWare or Win4Lin would be more suitable, but I must
> say it depends on your objectives and circumstances, about which I know
> nothing.
>
> HTH,
>
> Courtney
>
>
>
> Robert L. Harris wrote:
>
> >
> >Can you use a belkin on a laptop?
> >
> > I have a Linux laptop which does most of what I need. Recent
> >changes in my job now require me to use some windows tools but I won't
> >give up my Linux laptop. I put vmware on the laptop (1.4Ghz) and crank
> >up VMWare with WinXP on it, do what I need to do then just suspend the
> >Windows when not in use. Fast recovery should I need it in a meeting,
> >out of the way when I don't need it and easy recovery should I have to
> >install and test some software for some reason.
> >
> > In addition I use VMWare to do my school work which works with IE only
> >without having to dedicate a machine to windows.
> >
> >Robert
> >
> >
> >
> >Thus spake Courtney Thomas (ccthomas at joimail.com):
> >
> >
> >>I appreciate your reply and understand your motive, but I bought another
> >>KVM in a similar situation :-)
> >>
> >>Belkins are cheap and mine have been running about 5 yrs without any
> >>problem.
> >>
> >>Cordially,
> >>
> >>Courtney
> >>
> >>
> >>attriel wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>>Thank you for the clarification.
> >>>>
> >>>>I fail to recognize the merit of this idea of increasing complexity.
> >>>>Isn't Winders unstable enough without bringing down both ?
> >>>>
> >>>>Why not use a KVM switch and put both, but separate, on a local LAN ?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>Well, for instance:
> >>>
> >>>I'm setting up a test suite at the office. B/c of the range of folks
> >>>visiting our pages (intelligent to idiot), I end up needing:
> >>>
> >>>Linux, OSX, Windows 2k, Windows XP, Windows 98.
> >>>
> >>>Oh, but I need htem patched and unpatched. B/c we have a lot of idiots
> >>>:o
> >>>
> >>>I started setting it up, but I ran out of the 6 ports I had available on
> >>>the KVM :o So I'm looking to run virtual setups and stick it all on one
> >>>box instead :)
> >>>
> >>>--attriel
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> >>>
> >>>
> >>
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