OK, the AOpen mini-pc arrived. Looks great. Almost exactly like a mac mini minus the apple logo.
The bare-bones unit comes with absolutly no documentation about supported CPUs, RAM, etc. The AOpen web site seems useless. I used this article: http://www.anandtech.com/systems/showdoc.aspx?i=2707&p=2 to clue me into what CPU and ram to order: a Intel Pentium M 740 and 1 gig DDR2 sodim for the Ram. The mini-pc also has a mini-pci slot, so I ordered an Intel 2200BG card. All told, my costs so far are $634.47 plus shipping. The CPU, at $210.50, seemed overpriced, but I didn't take the time to shop around. Hopefully, the CPU and RAM will arrive on Friday, so I can get this beast working over the weekend. All told, it's a little hard to get excited about this hardware. Since clever folks are now booting Windows XP on Intel mac minis, could linux be far behind? Yes, this cost is almost $200 less than a comperable mac mini, but if you wait a bit and get the mac mini, you can be the first one on your block to have a triple-boot os machine. If folks are interested, I'll post some pics of the AOpen mini-pc in action once I have it up and running. -- gharris999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22179 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
