On Sat, 13 Jun 2009, Aragon Gouveia wrote:

Hi,

Pete French wrote:
  I'm not 100% sure, but fairly sure that you'll have a hard time
finding something that combines the low-power standalone type spec with
a 64-bit capable processor.  Once you get the higher-end processor,

That was my experiense when shopping around yes - annoying as I
don't need anything particularly low power (it ain't going to
be my leccy bill :-).

The Atom 230 and 330 are supposed to be 64-bit capable:

http://ark.intel.com/Compare.aspx?ids=36331,35635,35641,

but I have not personally tested either with an AMD64 FreeBSD install.

I have a Supermicro 5015A-H on the way, which is a 1U rackmount Atom 330 box, and am planning to run 7.2-STABLE amd64 on it. We'll see how it goes. No flash card slots, so you'd need adapters -- I was just going to use a pair of leftover 2.5" disks I had on the shelf.
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