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 your own server the idea of accompanying one of > these devices with plug computers and/or some cheap NAS looks funny, > but given the current price of VPS I don't think home-servers are well > worth any more.
I don't want the computer to be a server. It's supposed to become my main workstation. 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]. It's quite cheap and meets most of my requirements, although I'm not really satisfied. > PS[OT]: you would not get rich this way, but I would buy such a thing > for a reasonable price: 1. find the right (cheap) plug computers to > run plan9 cpu servers, the right nas device to run venti, and the > right eee/wind/whichever terminal. 2. preconfigure everything and > package it in a cute box. 3. sell it. 4. profit! 5. goto 1 You probably won't make any profit with exotic operating systems ;). Moreover, I don't see the need for a separate file server in system with only one user. > -- > - yiyus || JGL . Regards, Matthias-Christian [1] http://www.tranquilpc-shop.co.uk/acatalog/T7-330_Barebones.html
