Hi everyone, For a long time I've been considering various mini-itx form-factor devices for multi-purpose use at home, as an HTPC, NAS, maybe messing around with osx86, etc.
One particular use that I wanted to make of such a device would be to use it as my own personal compile-farm, for various arm cross-compilation builds, and binary packages for my laptop / netbook. Recently, I was considering the Zotac IONITX-A. I would consider this a fairly powerful, yet low-power device, with an Atom 330 dual-core processor at 1.6 GHz and nVidia GPU ( Ion / 9400m ). I'm more than certain that it would work well as an HTPC, but for a personal build machine, I'd like to hear some feedback. Does anyone on the list have a similar network-appliance that they use for a personal compile-farm ? Neither of my aging x86 machines offer any CPU features greater than sse2, and neither have multiple-cores. For those who have a multi-core compile-farm at home, is there a largely noticeable difference in speed? If anyone does have a Zotac IONITX-A, how is the heat dissipation? Fan or no fan? Cheers, Chris On a slightly related note PS: Alternatively, there has been some mention [1] of a dual-core Ion-based device for the next AppleTV model or Mac Mini. [1] http://www.tomshardware.com/news/apple-mac-nvidia-ion,6849.html
