I love these things. The original reason for trying them was to have a silent (no fan) system. The 533/600MHz Edens are wonderful for installations and really cheap now.
Best all rounder is the 1GHz Nehemia imo, I've gigged with one instead of a laptop and they are very reliable. You can run them fanless with careful heatsinking. All the M series are good, many flavours to choose from. The downside of USB1 types is slow boot time. The most powerful mini-itx form are the Celerons, built a couple of custom small form factor servers for people using these and last time I checked they had almost a year of uptime. On the bad side...some of the advanced features like hardware mpeg decompression don't work without Windows. Also don't buy anything from mini-itx.com though. I had one DOA and after I shipped it back they never sent the goods. They don't answer any correspondence. Basically I got ripped off, really dodgy crooked company, so suggest you use http://www.icp-epia.co.uk/or an alternative. I'm currently shopping around for a small motherboard that I can put in a "headless" (no screen, mouse, keyboard) box as a laptop replacement for live performance. There's quite a few different processors to choose from on the Mini-ITX site, but I wonder if anyone has any experience using them for audio? Of course there's Intel Pentium M and Core, Core Duo and Celeron processors, as well as various VIA and Nehemiah CPUs. Any recommendable? Any to avoid? The system will be harddrive-less (Linux OS on CF card), so if anyone has any suggestions please let me know. best, derek -- derek holzer ::: http://www.umatic.nl ::: http://blog.myspace.com/macumbista ---Oblique Strategy # 174: "Water" _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
