Re: small form factor recommendations

2007-01-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 06:47:56PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I just wanted to follow up with my final decision for the sake of completion. I finally settled on building my own box (who wouldn't?) using a Via Epia SP-13000 mobo with .5G ram and an old 2.2G

Re: small form factor recommendations

2007-01-16 Thread Nick Boyce
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I finally settled on building my own box (who wouldn't?) using a Via Epia SP-13000 mobo with .5G ram and an old 2.2G laptop HD I had lying around (no local storage, all video will be saved on a server, so just need a boot and basic software, no X). I put it all in

Re: small form factor recommendations

2007-01-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 03:09:07AM +, Nick Boyce wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I finally settled on building my own box (who wouldn't?) using a Via Epia SP-13000 mobo with .5G ram and an old 2.2G laptop HD I had lying around (no local storage, all video will be saved on a

Re: small form factor recommendations

2007-01-16 Thread Marc Shapiro
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 03:09:07AM +, Nick Boyce wrote: Erm .. I hate to be a gloom merchant, and maybe you already know this and have determined this particular mobo is immune, but ... there are comments at both the MythTV and IVTV sites claiming that

Re: small form factor recommendations

2007-01-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 03:08:42PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Hi list, I just wanted to follow up with my final decision for the sake of completion. I've got to put in an additional system at work with a high-level of USB support (camera's, ugh). I'm looking for something that is

Re: small form factor recommendations

2007-01-15 Thread Marc Shapiro
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I just wanted to follow up with my final decision for the sake of completion. I finally settled on building my own box (who wouldn't?) using a Via Epia SP-13000 mobo with .5G ram and an old 2.2G laptop HD I had lying around (no local storage, all video will be

Re: small form factor recommendations

2007-01-08 Thread Matt Miller
something that is a pretty small form factor as space is a definite consideration I've been using the Shuttle XPC. This is not a super-small machine, but it is a full-fledged PC in a small form factor. I've used the SN21G5. Put in an AMD 4600+ CPU, a couple GB of RAM, configure a couple SATA

Re: small form factor recommendations

2007-01-06 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 03:44:34PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 06:40:13PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 03:08:42PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Hi list, I've got to put in an additional system at work with a high-level

Re: small form factor recommendations

2007-01-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 04:23:57PM +, Digby Tarvin wrote: On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 03:44:34PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 06:40:13PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 03:08:42PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Hi list,

Re: small form factor recommendations

2007-01-06 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 11:38:35AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I have been using the A4F machines which are also mini-ITX based computers: http://www.mappit.de/a4fsite_englisch/ Plus points were that they were available in a solid state configuration (no flash, fans or other

Re: small form factor recommendations

2007-01-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 08:55:33PM +, Digby Tarvin wrote: Of course what I meant to say there was 'no HDD, fans or other moving parts'... The iBox that I have is the same way, except that I opted for two small case fans since I wanted a hard drive in there. If you don't need a hard

Re: small form factor recommendations

2007-01-06 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 04:18:45PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 08:55:33PM +, Digby Tarvin wrote: Of course what I meant to say there was 'no HDD, fans or other moving parts'... The iBox that I have is the same way, except that I opted for two small

Re: small form factor recommendations

2007-01-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 09:54:46PM +, Digby Tarvin wrote: I think the Geode is much the same - but I havn't seen any specific claim to Intel equivalent. The kernel supplied with it is 586. [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu

small form factor recommendations

2007-01-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Hi list, I've got to put in an additional system at work with a high-level of USB support (camera's, ugh). I'm looking for something that is a pretty small form factor as space is a definite consideration. I came across cappuccino pc's ( www.cappuccinopc.com ) and they've got some nice looking

Re: small form factor recommendations

2007-01-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 03:08:42PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Hi list, I've got to put in an additional system at work with a high-level of USB support (camera's, ugh). I'm looking for something that is a pretty small form factor as space is a definite consideration. I came I have

Re: small form factor recommendations

2007-01-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 06:40:13PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 03:08:42PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Hi list, I've got to put in an additional system at work with a high-level of USB support (camera's, ugh). I'm looking for something that is a

Re: small form factor recommendations

2007-01-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 03:44:34PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: yeah, that looks nice. Do you have the flash drive option? and if so, can you boot off the thing? Nope. No flash drive. I forget which, but one of their mini-ITX boards has a bootable compact flash, but I forget which

Re: small form factor recommendations

2007-01-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 06:58:17PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 03:44:34PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: yeah, that looks nice. Do you have the flash drive option? and if so, can you boot off the thing? Nope. No flash drive. I forget which, but one

Re: small form factor recommendations

2007-01-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 06:40:13PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 03:08:42PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Hi list, I've got to put in an additional system at work with a high-level of USB support (camera's, ugh). I'm looking for something that is a

Re: small form factor recommendations

2007-01-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 09:09:55PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: So, I poked aroudn that site for a while, and then later went back to it, but couldn't remember the name. tried iboxpc.com and got a very similar but not quite right site. did some more poking around and hmmm...