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Post by xorcist »

gizzlon wrote: post #301
fidotron wrote: post #53

Hardware like that makes me yearn for one with no wireless and a pair of Gigabit Ethernet ports to use as a firewall and server. It's fairly interesting to note what it's not: Android or Chrome OS. I suspect Microsoft will do quite well out of this, especially in the digital signage market, anywhere which is reasonably price sensitive but if developer time and cost can be reduced then they get a lot of leeway. Still,…

> Hardware like that makes me yearn for one with no wireless and a pair of Gigabit Ethernet ports to use as a firewall and server. Yeah, me too.. I currently use a fan-less Via board with integrated 686 compatible CPU. It's been great, but it's now 7 (?) years old so it might be time for an upgrade. Wonder if they still make them, they never got the attention they deserved. Edit: The boards are called EPIA and come i…

There are fanless Atom motherboards with dual ethernet. Should be a painless upgrade for you when that time comes.

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Post by digi_owl »

nailer wrote: post #277
digi_owl wrote: post #267

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Yes, it is an odd development. But then what is now AMD's GPU division, ATI, used to be THE supplier of console gaming GPUs. Sure, there are issues with the ARM world. But i kinda prefer the vibrant market there over the 2 1/2 horse race that is x86.

Who is the half? Via?

Yeah, and maybe i was a bit nice. Could just as well have put them down as 1/4 i guess.

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Post by ryan-allen »

I bought a i5 NUC [1] which I use for work (in the places I contract where I'm there for a bit longer than a few days). It's such a cool little device, the build took all of 15 minutes, and now Intel release this!

The NUCs come in a few sizes, the cheapest costing around 150 AUD. They make great media, desktop replacements or linux servers!

As soon as this little guy comes out I'm totally buying one (a stick), I like what they're doing with this stuff!

[1] http://www.intel.com.au/content/www/au/en/nuc/overview.html

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Post by mkingston »

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #251
mkingston wrote: post #249

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What a price difference. Wow. Dozens, nay, hundred of hours learning Linux finally pays off. Seriously now, I'm really pleased to see that you can choose Linux and pay so much less. Of course on a relatively more expensive machine that difference isn't much, but it's certainly a stark difference on such a cheap device. Edit: I see there's a hardware difference too. That's a bit of a shame. I wonder what corporate for…

I don't think it's evil corporate forces. They wanted a "budget" one with lower specs and realised they could reduce the price further by removing the Windows license. I doubt it's actually that much of the price tag.

You're probably right. I didn't mean evil corporate forces. I will certainly concede that I used the wrong term. I was earnestly curious what the justification was. I should've said "business justification" or some such, given the (reasonable) interpretation of what I actually said.

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Post by StavrosK »

mkingston wrote: post #249
_nedR wrote: post #159

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Ah. Thanks for the link. The 149$ version comes with Windows 8.1 Preloaded. The linux version is 89$.

What a price difference. Wow. Dozens, nay, hundred of hours learning Linux finally pays off. Seriously now, I'm really pleased to see that you can choose Linux and pay so much less. Of course on a relatively more expensive machine that difference isn't much, but it's certainly a stark difference on such a cheap device. Edit: I see there's a hardware difference too. That's a bit of a shame. I wonder what corporate for…

> Wow. Dozens, nay, hundred of hours learning Linux finally pays off.

Eh, the hundreds of hours I spent learning Windows were much less useful to me.

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Post by rbanffy »

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #70
ashcairo wrote: post #62

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Microsoft made licenses for their OS's free for anything under 9 inches.

Not sure it applies to this, since it doesn't have a screen. Windows is used in a lot of embedded applications, and I think we still charge for that (disclaimer: unknowledgeable Microsoft employee).

They'll go great lengths to prevent Linux from getting any more exposure than Windows on any format. A zero or negative-cost license is to be expected.

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Post by minot »

sorokod wrote: post #242
_nedR wrote: post #145

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I find that Intel makes quite a few great products and initiatives. They just don't market it as loudly as others. The Intel NUC ( http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/nuc/overview.html ) is quite a versatile machine - smaller, better performance and value for money than mac minis, and more hacker friendly. It even has a cute unboxing experience (The box plays the intel jingle when you open it) Then there are initi…

Looks like they just got a version bump http://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-nuc-broadwell,28344.h...

I hope they make one with a full size HDMI (maybe even HDMI 2?) next year.

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Post by newman314 »

donavanm wrote: post #246
seanp2k2 wrote: post #130

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+1 for the ERLite; it's a MIPS62r2 Cavium Octeon with 512MB RAM[1]. With the latest firmware, it's running Debian Wheezy, and I've had no trouble with adding the normal Debian repos and adding things like Privoxy to it (though I suspect these would be overwritten in a FW update). With Privoxy loaded and being used as an HTTP proxy for my local net with the EasyList rules, it doesn't break about 5%CPU with 100mbit/sec…

Check out the Intel Atom Avoton and Rangley SOCs. Nice x86 cores, ECC, crypto acceleration, VT-x, passive TDP, and 4x 1/2.5gbe or 1x 10gbe depending on the serdes. I only wish they had VT-d to get sr iov. If you really need more connectivity going the trident + Intel + cumulus white box switch rate has crazy throughput per watt. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvermont

Can you shed more light/context on "trident + intel + cumulus". I'm familiar with cumulus but not trident.
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