Comment by vbezhenar
7 years ago
Old laptop is even better. Android might pause your applications so they won't respond to the requests. There are ways to overcome that, but it will eat much more power. And those ways might break with new Android versions, probably because Android creators hate when some app does not allow their phone to sleep.
What I don't understand is why nobody does some kind of cheap battery backup for PC. Even cheapest UPS costs a lot and good UPS costs like a PC. While laptop battery is pretty cheap and provides a lot of power. All I need is few seconds to properly turn off the machine when power cuts.
+1 for laptops as home servers. Built in KVM and UPS, small form factor, generally optimised to have a small heat and power footprint. Have done this quite successfully for 20 years, each laptop lasting about 5 years as a small homeserver or router, having already been used as a laptop for 2 years prior.