In the last ten years or so, I have personally owned four main laptops from three different manufacturers. If you ask me what my favorite one of all time is, it will have to be my current one that I bought last year. It runs Windows 10 Pro, and comes loaded with a powerful yet efficient Intel Core i5-5287U CPU, 16GB DDR3L-1866 RAM, 512GB PCIe based SSD, high resolution 2560x1600 13.3" IPS display, and about 10 hours battery life. Best of all, its all-aluminum construction makes it only 1.8cm thick, and tips the scale at a rather lightweight 3.48lbs. I could go on all day about how amazing my latest Windows laptop is, but I think you can just look up the rest yourself on the company's product page: It is called a MacBook Pro. Wait, what? Yes, my 2015 MacBook Pro is really the best Windows laptop I have ever owned. Now, you may think I may be missing the point of owning a MacBook Pro in the first place, but let us be honest here for a moment -- cutting edge hardware deserves a real operating system. Shots fired! Jokes aside, I think the best way to utilize our equipment is not to confine it to certain software, but rather, to unleash its potential by expanding the collection of programs it can run. To carry on with this thought, what do you call a system that has an Intel Celeron N3150 quad core processor, 4GB of RAM, a full array of connectors at the back, and runs your choice of a Linux distribution? As much as that sounds like a modest PC for casual internet users, what I am really talking about is the QNAP TS-453A network attached storage system. If I can run Windows on my MacBook Pro, how much can you do with a QNAP NAS that can also run a Linux distribution of your choice?