Re: [dwm] Low Power Fanless Computer

2009-04-26 Thread Kai Großjohann
I suggest to buy some sort of laptop or netbook and ignore the internal keyboard/display. Perhaps the Dell Mini 12 is good (since fanless) but I don't know how it fits into the other requirements. Kai On 04/25/2009 02:59 AM, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: Hi, after a few months of

Re: [dwm] Low Power Fanless Computer

2009-04-25 Thread yy
While I really like Asus products (I'm very happy with my eee), maybe the msi catalog is also worth a look. Both windbox and windnettop look like interesting fanless desktop replacements in the same line than the eeebox. If you want to have your own server the idea of accompanying one of these

Re: [dwm] Low Power Fanless Computer

2009-04-25 Thread Matthias-Christian Ott
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 03:23:39PM +0200, yy wrote: While I really like Asus products (I'm very happy with my eee), maybe the msi catalog is also worth a look. Both windbox and windnettop look like interesting fanless desktop replacements in the same line than the eeebox. If you want to have

Re: [dwm] Low Power Fanless Computer

2009-04-25 Thread voltaic
I have been looking into this kind of thing myself. What I found is that getting an Atom nettop computer would be a significant downgrade in performance (from my Pentium M). Both in performance and power/Watt. Also, GMA900 on the EEEs is slow enough that rendering webpages is not very smooth.

Re: [dwm] Low Power Fanless Computer

2009-04-25 Thread Matthias-Christian Ott
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 11:50:04AM -0400, voltaic wrote: I have been looking into this kind of thing myself. What I found is that getting an Atom nettop computer would be a significant downgrade in performance (from my Pentium M). Both in performance and power/Watt. Also, GMA900 on the EEEs is

Re: [dwm] Low Power Fanless Computer

2009-04-25 Thread pmarin
Low power computers...Why not a netbook? On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Charlie Kester corky1...@comcast.net wrote: On Sat 25 Apr 2009 at 08:45:40 PDT Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: After my router (which has a Geode LX 800) had a 1/10 of the Whetstone score of my laptop, I decided to buy a

Re: [dwm] Low Power Fanless Computer

2009-04-25 Thread Charlie Kester
On Sat 25 Apr 2009 at 08:45:40 PDT Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: After my router (which has a Geode LX 800) had a 1/10 of the Whetstone score of my laptop, I decided to buy a Intel Atom based system, because the PPW ratio is much higher. I currently consider buying a T7-330 Atom Barebone [1].

Re: [dwm] Low Power Fanless Computer

2009-04-25 Thread Matthias-Christian Ott
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 07:18:45PM +0200, pmarin wrote: Low power computers...Why not a netbook? Because netbooks and laptops aren't ergonomic. On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Charlie Kester corky1...@comcast.net wrote: On Sat 25 Apr 2009 at 08:45:40 PDT Matthias-Christian Ott wrote:

Re: [dwm] Low Power Fanless Computer

2009-04-25 Thread markus schnalke
[2009-04-25 19:47] Matthias-Christian Ott o...@mirix.org On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 07:18:45PM +0200, pmarin wrote: Low power computers...Why not a netbook? Because netbooks and laptops aren't ergonomic. Plug external input and output devices to them. ;-) meillo signature.asc

Re: [dwm] Low Power Fanless Computer

2009-04-25 Thread pmarin
I use a laptop with a 21,6 external motinor, keyboard, mouse, etc. It is like a normal computer but more silent :) and energy efficient. On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 8:11 PM, markus schnalke mei...@marmaro.de wrote: [2009-04-25 19:47] Matthias-Christian Ott o...@mirix.org On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at

[dwm] Low Power Fanless Computer

2009-04-24 Thread Matthias-Christian Ott
Hi, after a few months of latop-only computing (my good old P4 1.8Ghz is now - after 7 years - a Windows machine in our household), I plan to switch to a normal computer again. My requirements are the following: o Low power consumption ( 10W; 25W upper limit) o Support for major Free