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To: decimon

This PC is already outdated. It’s very very expensive, 387 EURO ! It’s very bulky, it’s using a PSU with 180W too much power, and the cost to ship stateside would be prohibitive.

On top of that, using an Atom dual core for a situation like this (thin client) is less energy efficient than using an embedded CPU with integrated GPU. These systems became available 2 weeks ago...

For that price range, get these little suckers for US$200:
http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/p-40-guruplug-display-devkit.aspx
GuruPlug Display - DevKit
110mm (L) x 69.5mm (W) x 48.5 mm (H)
Consuming under 5 Watts of power

I’m thinking about buying one as a testbed for a very small Linux home media server.


26 posted on 03/05/2011 9:12:07 AM PST by JerseyHighlander (p.s. The word 'bloggers' is not in the freerepublic spellcheck dictionary?!)
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To: JerseyHighlander
I’m thinking about buying one as a testbed for a very small Linux home media server.

If an ARM processor can handle it. Might be best to wait for some reviews.

28 posted on 03/05/2011 9:40:26 AM PST by decimon
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