It's good that the Artigo is pre-wrapped up in a nice enclosure, but there are a few slightly more impressive fanless devices from MSI that tote dual-core intel atom 330 chips.
http://www.logicsupply.com/products/ms_9832 Personally, I would like to get my hands on one of the dual-core atom machines just to have a couple of extra threads available for compiling binary packages. It could easily play a second role as an HTPC, if one were to drop a PCI TV tuner card inside. Although with the change to HDTV, I'm not really sure where PCI TV tuner cards will be in a year or two. On the other hand, I tend to root for the underdog, and hopefully we'll see some competition for the Atom-330 when VIA starts shipping its dual-core Isaiah chips. I'm very tempted to wait until the Nvidia Ion platform is being fabricated, paired with the Via Nano. If I could buy a dual-core Via Nano chip and the GeForce 9400M on the same board, all bets would be off. Although it is wishful thinking, it might not be unrealistic according to [1]. C [1] http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/20/nivida-ion-platform-to-support-via-nano-processors-this-year/ On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Ajai Khattri <[email protected]> wrote: > > The perfect device for building a Gentoo-based NAS device? > > http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/embedded/artigo/a2000/
