On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 07:48 -0800, marcus wrote: > My plan (having given up on using my desktop (too noisy / power hungry) > and a cobalt raq 3 that I had lying around (too old/awkward) is to > build a mini-itx box as cheaply as possible. It will just run > slimserver and samba. Sure the difference between 256 Mb and 512 is > probably only 20 quid but if I don't need to spend the extra cash then > why do it?
Memory sizes sometimes drive decisions. If you have a two slot motherboard, and fill both with 128MB each (can you even by these anymore?). and decide to upgrade, you have to throw out the small ones and go bigger. The economics of memory pricing is weird. Sometimes twice the size is only 25% more money. I found that on the SS 5.4 that I used to run, the difference between 256MB and 384 was huge. Since the 6.* series have more cool features, one expects it to also need more memory. But it might. The key is don't box yourself into a corner. Software always adds features, slows down and needs more of everything. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
