I use a couple of ASUS EEE boxes in one installation - quiet, low power, small, DVI+A video. Intel Atom, x86 architecture. No DVD drive - I can plug a USB drive and boot from that if I must. One runs Linux, the other (cough cough gasp can't say it). For security reasons, I can't run virtualization on one machine.
The EEE boxes work OK, and I expect ASUS to keep making them. One of mine may be getting a little flakey. Time to buy a just-in-case spare to minimize downtime. But before I do, now is a good time to review the landscape. The ASUS+Atom is just powerful enough. By now, there may be more powerful machines of the same size, using the same power, perhaps more reliable or cheaper. Perhaps something with an eSATA port. Has anybody seen something better, or at least worth looking at? Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
