reecommendations for an 'appliance" platform ?

Aragon Gouveia aragon at phat.za.net
Sat Jun 13 22:11:14 UTC 2009


Hi,

Pete French wrote:
>>   I'm not 100% sure, but fairly sure that you'll have a hard time
>> finding something that combines the low-power standalone type spec with
>> a 64-bit capable processor.  Once you get the higher-end processor,
> 
> That was my experiense when shopping around yes - annoying as I
> don't need anything particularly low power (it ain't going to
> be my leccy bill :-).

The Atom 230 and 330 are supposed to be 64-bit capable:

http://ark.intel.com/Compare.aspx?ids=36331,35635,35641,

but I have not personally tested either with an AMD64 FreeBSD install.


> It needs to be:
> 
> 1) Complete as purchased - I dont want to build a machine
> 2) Capable of having a simple boot device (e.g. CF card) dropped in
> 3) At least one ether port. 100 meg will do.
> 4) Small enough to be posted to the end user
> 5) Cheap - under 400 euros, preferably 300

You might consider something like this:

http://www.tranquilpc-shop.co.uk/acatalog/T7-330_Barebones.html

Or this which is rack mountable:

http://www.tranquilpc-shop.co.uk/acatalog/T2e_300atom_nocd.html

Both Atom 330 based and prebuilt.

No affiliation with them, but I almost ordered one and found their 
support to be responsive and helpful. :)



Regards,
Aragon


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