A Cool, Green PC

[STEVETERRY]

See:

www.Fit-PC.com


I have this running a music server 24/7. It draws 5 watts (that's right, I said five!).

It might be useful for a lot of applications. Perhaps even some in lighting!

ST

[avkid]

My god, I think that just might be my new booth computer.

[icewolf08]

Mac Mini anyone?

EDIT: Though it is nice that it is made by an Israeli company.

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Would be a pretty nice mythtv frontend, if only it had TV out of some sort.

[Chaos is Born]

This might actually end up controling our lights in our building... Its GE lighting... all we need is DOS...

[Van]

It's cute, but My God could you imagine running XP on 256 meg of ram, and a 500 mhz processor? I think it's a neat idea, maybe for a lighting desk. but at 500 Mhz it wouldn't be much of a sound, or multimedia computer, even if you were only rnning it's stock Gentoo Linux. < I prefer Ubuntoo>

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Originally Posted by Van

It's cute, but My God could you imagine running XP on 256 meg of ram, and a 500 mhz processor? I think it's a neat idea, maybe for a lighting desk. but at 500 Mhz it wouldn't be much of a sound, or multimedia computer, even if you were only rnning it's stock Gentoo Linux. < I prefer Ubuntoo>

It wouldnt be bad for running a dedicated linux box, I would not put windows on it. It would run mythfronted well as well as unbuntu. If you wanted a PC in your kitchen or something like that it would be pretty great.

[Radman]

I happen to know from experience that XP can run somewhat tolerably on 400MHz with 256MB RAM. And Ubuntu, openSuSE, DSL, VectorLinux, and CentOS can run smoothly. So 500MHz, lets just say if I had the money I would have another computer being added to my inventory very soon. The part that gets me is how cheap it is! Though I guess considering again 500MHz, I'd say its a reasonable price.

Funny thing is I just bought about the exact opposite of those, I got a couple of servers on eBay for really cheap, turns out they BARELY fit between the doors of my rack, and forget mounting them.

[derekleffew]

Originally Posted by icewolf08

Mac Mini anyone?

Plug your Mac mini into a Kill-a-Watt and let us know the results. Apple's specs say "maximum continuous power 110W." I'm not degrading Macs, just pointing out how amazing steveterry's new toy is. Now I'm going to have to buy a Kill-a-Watt, just to see how long the payback would take if I replaced my main HP machine.

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Originally Posted by derekleffew

Plug your Mac mini into a Kill-a-Watt and let us know the results. Apple's specs say "maximum continuous power 110W." I'm not degrading Macs, just pointing out how amazing steveterry's new toy is. Now I'm going to have to buy a Kill-a-Watt, just to see how long the payback would take if I replaced my main HP machine.

Search hard on the web--I got my Kill a watts for $19.00 each.

ST