Do you mean you want to map the towers hard drive space to your laptop? You could do that, but you cannot share physical memory between two systems. The only addressable memory in each system will come from Virtual memory in Windows and Physically installed memory on the motherboard. You cannot use 128 of one system plus your 128 on your laptop to give you 256 on your laptop if thats what you mean. The same goes for processor speeds and video memory. Yep thats what I meant by mapping the drive from one system to another, through the network that doonze was nice enough to lay out for you.
No. He can use one card for the tower @ 10.00. The laptop requires a different kind of card (PCMCIA) at about 45.00 last time I bought one. The hub is a necessity, you cannot plug cat5 rj45 cables from computer to computer. You might be thinking of the older ethernet coax with bnc connectors (still available) but runs 10 times slower. Direct cable connections are slower yet.
