"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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"Keith G" wrote


Yep, but the Revo R3610 (?) comes with wireless keyboard
and mouse. If you are squeezing one in (see link below)
you don't need another screen, you need a VGA switch (see
pic).

Wireless mice and keyboards work with anything that has a USB port. The
current wireless mouse/keyboard USB interface is smaller than a typical
flash drive. Way smaller.

It seems to me that having a micro-desktop and a desktop sharing a screen
misses a lot of the advantage of the micro-desktop which is the small
footprint.


A small footprint is a bonus but was not a requirement for me. The Revo is
one of three computers that I switch between (according to what I am doing)
by snapping the VGA switch:

http://www.moirac.adsl24.co.uk/showntell/3Computers.JPG


The idea was to transfer the workload and contents of the Acer L100 (left of
monitor, top of audio stack) to the Revo and retire the L100 but it has been
behaving so well lately I have not done this. It is eay to find people
online whining that the L100s overheat but mine is on all day and has never
had any such problem. I suspect they have had them in the upright position,
standing them on the air intake end!

OTOH, it is easy to lock it up if you (me) overload it with too many tasks -
hence the mutiple computers. Some of my jobs take over an hour to complete -
no good having the machine crash 95% of the way in!



It is no big secret that most modern desktops are big empty boxes. I've
been building desktops with full power and complement of drives (even RAID
arrays!) in this case for several years:


I've built a number myself (including the black X-Qpack on the right in the
pic) but the idea of trapping large amounts of data in large boxes no longer
appeals to me. Much better to have the mobility and relative safety of a
number of USB hard drives.

With some file sizes approaching 50 Gig it's always easy to fill up any size
hard disk in a very short time!