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Advantages and disadvantages of ARM vs x-86 processors in future laptops

Recently I’ve started reading about ARM processors coming out on low-cost and low power laptops, such as these unveiled at computex in Taiwan. I’m one of the Tech people at my company, and often I get asked for my opinion when picking out new…
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Out of Office laptop backup solution

We have a number of laptops that are in use by traveling sale people who are rarely in the office. We are looking for a convenient backup solution for their laptops. It must be a no brainier kind of system. Any suggestions?
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Mostly offsite asset management (laptops/smartphones) - what is a good SaaS based solution?

Most of our company assets are offsite. Everyone either works at home or onsite at a customer. Most asset management/audit/remote control software concentrate on company LAN based assets. We don't need an NMS as we use OpenNMS in the internal…
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What's the best ThinkPad regarding Linux support?

Currently Mac user but will switch to ThinkPad soon, with Arch Linux, Debian or some BSD loaded on it. Everything except T and SL series is out of the consideration for me. I am leaning towards T500. Wondering what are the experiences with those…
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Monitoring remote laptops

We're looking for something to monitor around 30 remote laptops that are constantly out on the road, never returning to base except for when there are serious hardware faults that need repairing. These laptops won't always be connected to the…
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IT solution for 4 sites & 20 users

I'm shopping for a complete laptop "solution" for a staff of 20, in four cities, including hardware, software, service, support, data transfer, training, backup, etc. We need it to "just work", and we don't have the staff to do much beyond basic…
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What do you recommend for a Netbook?

I am currently looking at buying a new netbook which would run the newest version of Ubuntu. What would you recommend buying? I have been told that netbooks can be severely slow. This machine would need to be able to run Firefox, Evolution, and VNC…
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How to connect CentOS 6.3 CLI server to wireless LAN?

I'm migrating from an openSUSE (12.x) CLI home office server to CentOS 6.3. I can install the CLI CentOS 6.3 fine, but then how do I connect that to my home wifi? There is a "Configure network" button during the anaconda graphical install, and it…
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Backup Laptops/Desktops To Server Fast/Simply

Is there anyway to backup various laptops/desktops connected through my network to my server. I can put any kind of operating system on this server. I was thinking maybe there is some type of clonezilla that will work for this task. So yes I do…
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CPU - Virtualization Technology (Intel VT) in a Laptop

I have a Dell laptop I bought in 2006 and it has Virtualization Technology option in the BIOS. My CPU is an Intel T7200. For me, the VT option is used to use ESXi or Hyper-V on a machine, but on a laptop? What does the VT option does in a laptop?
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How to Pre-Configure Shared Laptops' Microsoft Outlook 2010 Accounts to Connect to Exchange Server 2007 SP3?

Our IT environment provides 10 shared, Microsoft Windows 7 laptops for an office staff of several hundred people. After checking-out and logging into a laptop with an Active Directory domain account, office staff frequently run Microsoft Outlook…
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Hardware Recommendation for Hospital O.R

We need to choose hardware for our operating room within our hospital for our new medical informatics system. The hardware does not need to be extremely powerful, as it's basically acting as a thin client, and not doing much processing. Our…
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What group policy settings do you apply for laptop users?

I've a number of users with laptops who take them off-site. Currently I've got policies mapping drives and the like, which won't work unless they're connected to the domain. It also takes a while for these to time out when logging in off-site. What…
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How to configure postfix to dynamically choose different relayhosts?

I use my laptop at work on wireless and wired networks, at home on a wireless network, and at various other places (such as conferences, friends houses, etc). When at work I'd like postfix to use the corportate mail server to route emails. When at…
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hp 6716s, 6715b, and 6710s laptops on linux wireless problem

A year ago we bought several HP Compaq's laptops. Different models, from 6715s, 6715b, 6710s, 6735 ... (not all of them have gone through my hands so I don't know every one of them). They came with preinstalled Win XP Home, which worked fine (except…
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