I can't decide if that's horrifying or brilliant. Leaning towards both.

Oh wow... Like my sibling commenter, I'm both horrified and... looking around the shop for spare Thinkpads :D

so what you're saying is that I could turn the 10 used laptops in my basement into a business?

okay....brb...reformatting them to linux.

My home server is my 2nd gen i7 laptop, the battery can still keep it running for roughly an hour if it is not under load.

The modifications done, were replacing the DVD drive with a 2.5" Driver adaptor for a raided system, and putting two new high capacity 2.5" drives in.