On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 02:06:41PM -0700, Ben Barrett wrote: > Wha? With 500Mhz and 128MB RAM, dual DVI and 16-bit stereo I/O, I would see > this as aa really nice addition in say a straw-bale house -- put in PoE, and > a combo of HD monitor & ~10-inch touchscreen, and audio, and a wireless > keyboard and mouse.... vogue home entertainment PC, streaming from the > fanless mini-itx behind the scenes. Sure the high-end systeem is almost > 700USD, and it does not have surround sound.
Specs for the high-end model are 1600x1200 DVI. Meh. I use nearly that now, and I have been looking to upgrade to 1920x1200. It wouldn't do for my purposes even for streaming. Actually, I think I have more interest in all of the ports on the low-end model being internal to a double-width standard wall box. Connect some small USB peripherals to the thing--some of them on the standard consumer market and some of them reserved for more interesting applications, and you have yourself a nice home management device. Actually, I am sortof doing this with or without wall jack PC. One of the things I need though is a low-speed serial protocol that is robust over about ethernet distance without lots of signal termination issues. I have seen a few such things in catalogs and the like, but none with information enough that I could make an informed choice. The non-computer endpoints tend to provide things like wire terminals for connecting to relays and sensors and the like. Lots more and more varied applications than x10/insteon arrangements, and probably more reliable at doing what those things do. It's also a lot cheaper than the more high-end things intended for building management and automation, most of which are amusingly still using powerline protocols. _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
