[Lancaster] The answer will be no!

andy baxter andy at earthsong.free-online.co.uk
Tue Apr 28 11:51:19 UTC 2009


Rik Boland wrote:
> This may sound stupid and the answer will be no but just in case.
>
> If I get a tower box, could I then use my laptop as it's monitor and 
> keyboard but use the box processing power? 
>   
The answer is yes in fact - you can use the laptop as an 'X terminal'. 
I.e. the tower box runs the programs but it sends information about 
what's on the screen to the laptop over the network. Someone else might 
be able to give you a bit more info if you want to try this.

andy



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