nicketynick Wrote: > So Mark, how cheap do you figure you can put together a very basic Via > for Slimserver?
Wow...that didn't take long. ;-) The first part would be finding a supplier. NCIX.com has some VIA mini-ITX boards. One of them is fanless: http://tinyurl.com/ks9pc Check the price, nearly $300. It'd be nice to have a better fanless mini-ITX board selection though. Add $60 for 512 MB of Samsung RAM. They only sell *one* mini-ITX case: http://tinyurl.com/kvv48 It isn't fanless, look at the rear photo. So I'd have to find a supplier of fanless mini-ITX cases. Say it costs $150. Add a $100 300 GB drive. Ideally it would be like an "appliance" so everything would be visible/controllable via a web page. The only low-cost OS I'm aware of that's like this out-of-the-box is ClarkConnect. A very nice, professional-looking front end with a Linux kernel running underneath. Not only does it support SlimServer, it actually comes with a version of SlimServer. So $300 for the board/CPU, $60 for the memory, $150 for the case and $100 for the HDD. That's $610 just to break even. Perhaps the cost could be brought down by getting this stuff through a wholesaler, but that would require setting up a business and buying in quantity before any orders even come in. Also as I indicated I would not want to deal with support requests. I do that enough in my day job. It's very stressful to me not to be able to solve a technical problem for a customer who's paying me, let alone a few dozen or so for a project I'll be doing in my spare time... -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24428 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
