monitor+keyboar d+mouse together

[Romanise]

An LCD monitor with keyboard and mouse capabilities on it, thinnest
possible, to hang on rack-door can be a boon for expensive spaces of
datawarehouses.

Has anyone come across one?

Maybe someone would go into manufacturing it.

£800 Dell product I am told occupies equivalent of two server space in
a rack.

[Lars Tr?ger]

"Elizabot v2.0.1" <El******@NsOpS yPmAaMc.com> wrote in message news:<41******* *************** *@news.frii.net >...

At least he's learned not to use his foot on the mouse!

It's in his mouth most of the time.

Lars T.

[Owen Rees]

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 23:39:36 +0100, "Richard Watson"
<ti********@doi lywood.org.uk> wrote in
<87************ @bigriver.doily wood.lan>:

Why couldn't you use a laptop and a serial port console? [Always assuming
that the laptop has a serial port which might be quite rare in newer
ones.]

Then a laptop and one of those serial port switch things would be all
you needed.

If serial port access is good enough then that would work, but as with
the administration over the network, I don't see any need to be near the
rack if you take that route.

A quick Google turned up a serial port switch at $445 for 4 ports, $695
for 8 ports. If you are adding that to the cost of a laptop it does not
look particularly cheap to me.

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[Owen Rees]

On 25 Aug 2004 23:22:36 -0700, dm*****@lycos.c o.uk (Romanise) wrote in
<dc************ **************@ posting.google. com>:

I am now thinking of buying least expensive laptop and leave it in
the rack.

What else is in the rack? How are you going to connect the laptop to it?

If you expect to be able to use the laptop as a monitor+keyboar d+mouse
for some other system, make sure you see it being used like that before
you spend money on it - I have never seen a laptop that can be used like
that.

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[Richard Watson]

Owen Rees <or***@hotmail. com> writes:

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 23:39:36 +0100, "Richard Watson"
<ti********@doi lywood.org.uk> wrote in
<87************ @bigriver.doily wood.lan>:

Why couldn't you use a laptop and a serial port console? [Always assuming
that the laptop has a serial port which might be quite rare in newer
ones.]

Then a laptop and one of those serial port switch things would be all
you needed.
If serial port access is good enough then that would work, but as with
the administration over the network, I don't see any need to be near the
rack if you take that route.

Serial port console does give you a few extra things over remote
network admin. Mainly you get to use it if the network doesn't come up
for any reason.

Conversely what does a real monitor and keyboard get you that a serial
console doesn't - oh unless you wanted a GUI for some reason ;-)
A quick Google turned up a serial port switch at $445 for 4 ports, $695
for 8 ports. If you are adding that to the cost of a laptop it does not
look particularly cheap to me.

Fortunately Maplin has them for £10 for a 4-way one, however I think
by then it's got the level of not being able to fit easily into the
rack-mount environment.

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[Richard Watson]

George Graves <gm*********@pa cbell.net> writes:

Unlike other OSes which ship multi-button mice with the
computer and are designed to use multiple buttons, Macs are designed to
be used how YOU want to use them.

So, which OS is shipped with a mouse? Or are you assuming that
intel == windows == 3 button mouse ?
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High Quality, Value for money colocation

[Rick G]

In article <87************ @bigriver.doily wood.lan>,
"Richard Watson" <ti********@doi lywood.org.uk> wrote:

George Graves <gm*********@pa cbell.net> writes:

Unlike other OSes which ship multi-button mice with the
computer and are designed to use multiple buttons, Macs are designed to
be used how YOU want to use them.

So, which OS is shipped with a mouse? Or are you assuming that
intel == windows == 3 button mouse ?

For quite some time, vendors sold OEM windows with mice (or any other
form of hardware, often quite trivial such as bolts/nuts).

--
Rick...