Running laptop with tower

[xuzo]

HI Every one,

I'm very new at this!

I have a Compaq Presario notebook and I want to buy an additional tower to run tasks in the site, macros, data entry, FTP ect...

Is is possible? Can I run the tower from my laptop? Sending it commands and running softwares on it's own using my laptop as monitor, mouse and keyboard?

If so, I am quite short on cash and am thinking of buying something second hand, the tower doesn't need sound card, video card or nothing. Just a data processing machine, software used will mostly be FTP and Wintask.

Would a 500 MGZ CPU and a 20 gig hard drive suffice for these tasks?

I'm in Thailand now so it hard to get help!

Cheers,
Bruno

 

[mysticarcane]

It certainly possible, depending on what type of OS you are using to interface with the tower. You will certainly need a monitor and Video card to at least initially set-up the tower however... if there is another way to do it, I am not sure how.

It looks like, after a very breif search that if you have WinXP Pro on your laptop, it should be compatible with a Linux OS on the tower, as long as it has the RDP protocols installed. Though there may be third party programs that make such interfaces easier(I just did a real quick search, very little details).

good luck!