Re: [PLUG] Re: silent, small form factor, linux

[Antony P Joseph <antony@panathara.org>]

Hi

  Please do not forget to mention the "Car PC' vertical segment. It is
nascent but growing.

With regards
Antony
On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 14:00 -0400, JP Vossen wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 10:09:40 -0400
> > From: "Jonathan E. Magen" <yonkeltron@gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [PLUG] silent, small form factor, linux
> > 
> > i found this tidbit showing a *very* small machine that is still
> > equipped sufficiently to be considered usable...
> > 
> > http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/26/stealth-computers-lpc-450-mini-pc/
> 
> That looks pretty nice, but "...just under $1,400 in the base 
> configuration..." may be way to much $$$, depending on your use case.
> 
> I am pretty happy with one of these for a dedicated backup server for 
> 1/3 the cost:
> http://www.synertrontech.com/products/embedded_computing/twister/ec-twister.html
> 
> It is significantly less powerful than the "wee machine" above, but the 
> key point for me was that the *only* moving part is the hard drive (no 
> fan to make noise and die).  I have a minimal Debian install on a 
> bootable CF-Card, and the hard drive contains only backed up data (and 
> swap), so it's trivially replaceable.
> 
> There is a large market for what used to be called "book-size" PCs [1] 
> in the retail vertical, for use as point-of-sale terminals.  I 
> personally find that market overcrowded and quite confusing, but in this 
> context it's handy; if you can sort through all the noise you can find 
> small units for much cheaper than the ones targets for "PC hobbyists" 
> (for lack of a better term).  When I last dealt with that market 
> (admittedly, going on 10+ years now), they mostly ran Win9x, so Linux 
> compatibility might be an issue.  OTOH, given the inroads Linux has 
> made, maybe it won't.
> 
> My $0.02,
> JP
> 
> [1] http://www.google.com/search?q=%22book-size%22+PC
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