Why a 36-Pound Computer? ...Combined with Remote Access? by VJ Farmer       While we anticipate that the most common and multi-use camera at MMA will be the iPhone, we needed a beefy workhorse computer to make it easier to put YouTube videos together.       This is the 5820 in Fort Myers, with three monitors, and a UPS. When in remote status, the monitors do not need to be on. The Dell Bios is set to restart if power drops out. The internet connection is 190Mbps down/up.       I had a Dell Precision 5820 here in Fort Myers for the past few years. At 36 pounds it is a big heavy workstation. But offsetting that is its Nvidia P2200 graphics card that supports four 27-inch monitors. You can never have enough monitors when you are running video software, Photoshop, and searching through a b-roll database; or trying to put together a custom-designed website. It also uses relatively cheap RAM.       Lightning took out its C drive. So I replaced the one 5820 with two younger Dells here in Fort Myers. I have conflicting audio input needs here now with digital amateur radio applications. However, I decided to rehab that 5820 as a remote server.       While looking for an inexpensive main computer for the Lab, I ran into a company in Cork that had a 5820 with a newer, faster processor available at a price, delivered, that I could not turn down. So that should be up and running in mid October '26.       This is a 2.5lb Dell 7310 laptop being used as a remote workstation connected to the 5820. It is kicked up with a 27-inch screen, keyboard and mouse. The three screens on the 5820 are selectable either as a group or individually.      Here's where the story gets interesting. We have been heavily operating Chrome Remote Access here in Fort Myers. If the fiber internet is up to it at the lab, we could run the old 5820 here in FL from a simple laptop at the Abbey. The heavy-duty processing takes place on the 5820; the laptop is essentially the remote keyboard, mouse and display.       If we set up the MMA 5820 for remote access, an authorized user could connect from a laptop and use the 5820's greater processing power and editing software from elsewhere.       Video and photos can be moved from an iPhone, and then processed on the 5820 in the lab.       We also have several 27 in. monitors that people can also HDMI attach to their laptops, if they have software they like with them. What the 5820s provide: • Four front access bays which allow quick changing of SSD drives. Two drives are dedicated to Windows, programs, and Restore. Two drives are dedciated to Data and Data Back Up. •  Additional OneDrive backup on one data drive: photo, text, video •  Nvidia Quadro P2200 graphics card with four DisplayPort connections •  96 GB RAM •  Windows 11 Pro for Workstations •  Microsoft 365 Office/Clipchamp •  SD Chip reader slot