Those old PCs need to be refitted with new hard drives every time. I would expect this atom box to use 20-25 watts of power also. Reports of their reliability are overblown. I used a Dell Dimension 4100 on my Bridgeport Interact and it would occasionally fail to boot, for example. I still have this Dimension.
i On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Kirk Wallace <kwall...@wallacecompany.com> wrote: > On Sat, 2010-10-23 at 11:49 -0500, Igor Chudov wrote: >> I kept looking and found this: >> >> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856101096 >> >> This is a Atom based fanless PC with an external laptop style brick >> power supply (meaning it is easily replaceable) and a DVD drive. I >> would replace or supplant the 320 GB Sata drive with an SSD. If I keep >> the sata drive, it would be used to hold various backups. >> >> Because of its intended use (no graphics, no movie viewing, just >> modest data serving) it should not consume too much power. >> >> i > > Just exploring another angle. Lets say you get a $50 Dell GX110 and use > it as is for five years or how ever long it lasts and it uses 150 watts > of power. Then compare it to this $300 PC at 80 Watts (guessing here). > That leaves $250 to pay the difference in in power consumption. And > saves all the new energy that is needed to make, transport (from China) > and recycle (back to China) a new PC. I haven't thought about it much > more than this, so I really don't know how this would turn out. > -- > Kirk Wallace > http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ > http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html > California, USA > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest > Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada > $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing > Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store > http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
