I am shopping for some XS options to test out ahead of our spring deployment.
I have looked at the MSI Wind PC, Eee Box, and the Shuttle X2700N. All have nice small form factors, low prices, and Atom chips. I am focused on Intel Atom-based PC's because they seem to be dropping in price the fastest and there are a number of different vendors selling atom-based pc's. Also, they are low-power. MSI Wind PC - cheap at roughly $350 w/ 1.6 Ghz processor and 1 GB RAM CON: looks like it has poor cooling and some customers complain it gets quite hot. Eee Box - more expensive but doesn't seem to have the same cooling problem Shuttle X2700N - slightly more expensive than the MSI at $200 but looks to have much better cooling. I can't find any customer reviews on it. Unfortunately, none of these have a spare PCI slot that I can use for the XS's 2nd NIC card. We are considering using a USB NIC for the eth1. Does anyone know of similar small form factor PC's that do have an extra PCI slot? Or other good XS choices? -- Bryan W. Berry Technology Director OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
