> Indeed, > I have been toying around with the idea of building a larger scale > version of Mr. Minnich's lunchbox using Mini-ITX boards.. > But I have no justification, since virtually everything i need to do > with plan 9 happens impossibly fast on just a simple vmware instance. > Plan9 is sufficiently speedy to stifle my desire to build a fast system.
small pcs price/performance ratio is too high for me if all i want is a pc. it's hard to beat a $50 motherboard and a $34 processor. but for other small appliance-y things, some very-low power mips or arm boards are attactive. - erik
