[ale] OT: mini PC

[Damon L. Chesser]

While not directly responding back to the OP, I did answer my own 
question:  I ordered one of each of the below, both with a 4G SODIMM and 
a 68GB SSD.

<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KR0QHXW/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1>http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KR0QHXW/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HVKLSVC/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I am amazed.  they both worked with ubuntu flawlessly, both wired and 
wireless.  Both play 1080P video.  I tested halflife2 on one of them 
with no issues (via steam).

For the price of ~$220 each, you can have a dual core intel chip, 4GB 
RAM and 68GB SSD.  Multiply that by 10 and for ~$2200 you have your own 
"orangebox" with each node sucking 7w power (or about $1.81 of power per 
year, I have had quoted me).  One real low cost, multi-host, highly 
configurable lab that will run OpenStack, RHEV, Ovirt, and anything you 
can imagine, just throw in a switch and network cables.

Granted, you will not be able to do heavy lifting with it, but you can 
POC the crap out of things and you will not need a new AC to cool your 
home lab room.  Oh, and they make good media servers and I read a Steam 
box, but I have not tried that.





On 09/04/2014 08:35 PM, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> Hmmm,
>
>
> Been thinking about the Orangebox, but at about $15K that is a bit 
> steep.  Wonder if this can be rigged up to provide a "cloud in a box" 
> for lab POC?
>
> At $150 each, if you can connect storage and network it is starting to 
> look attractive indeed.
>
> not for any real work, but for learning OpenStack goodness.
>
>
> On 09/04/2014 07:48 AM, Boris Borisov wrote:
>> http://linuxgizmos.com/android-4-4-mini-pc-packs-64-bit-quad-core-atom-punch/ 
>>
>>
>> Is this kind of devices can be named PC. PC for me have BIOS that 
>> loads the
>> first sector of boot device which takes over. These devices are having
>> uboot for boot loader that loads Linux kernel primarily so is very 
>> custom.
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