On Sunday 07 October 2007 21:29:03 James G. Sack (jim) wrote: > Apologies for duping a slashdot post, but this hardware, in addition to > maybe satisfying recent wishes for fanless operation, seems to introduce > so many new features, that it seems, well, revolutionary. > > P5E3 Deluxe/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Environment Friendly and Powerful Computing! > http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=11&l3=572&l4=0&model=1872&modelme >nu=1 > > ASUS Motherboard Ships With Embedded Linux, Web Browser > Published on October 06, 2007. > Written by Michael Larabel. > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=869&num=1 > > Regards, > ..jim
While this is kinda nifty, first of all this board is frigging expensive at 360 bucks. Count in Asus doing some no-nos recently like shiopping the 300+ USD board Striker Extreme with a beta BIOS and their recent announcement to partly outsource production to Foxconn (say "cheap") I seriously wouldn't know what makes this thing worth its price. What I really like about it is that when the computer is assembled Windows is not the first thing that greets you upon powering up... -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d--(+)@ s-:+ a- C++++ UL++ P+>++ L+++>++++ E-- W++ N o? K- w--(---) !O M+ V- PS+ PE Y++ PGP t++(---)@ 5 X+(++) R+(++) tv--(+)@ b++(+++) DI+++ D- G++ e* h>++ r* y? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ http://www.stop1984.com http://www.againsttcpa.com -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
