Was This Obvious To Everyone But Me?
The LCD monitors sold by Dell and Apple (and probably others) have USB hubs built into them. It finally occured to me that it's useful to have the keyboard and mouse run through the hub, because if the monitor is off you (or at least I) don't really want to tap enter and do something bad in a window you couldn't see. There is also the cat factor to consider. If the monitor is off, no inputs are processed; the screen has to be on to enter any inputs. (It's possible this is only for my Dell model, but I'd imagine most others do the same).
Posted 2007/05/21 in hardware; no comments
I came across Magma, a company that builds PCI enclosures. Insert a PCI-E card to your host machine and connect it over to a secondary box with 4 to 13 PCI or PCI-X slots. However, the cost is sufficiently high that it would be cheaper to just buy a second machine. Shame, since I could actually use this, if the price was reasonable.
Posted 2006/10/31 in hardware; no comments