reecommendations for an 'appliance" platform ?

[Danny Braniss]

> >   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 :-).
> 
> > becomes a more likely failure point, and so on.  Can you elaborate a
> > bit more on which parts of that system spec you really need - do you
> > need the GigE?  Two ethernets? The external SATA?
> 
> 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
> 
> I do not really care about processor speed, or memory, or power
> consumption. It needs to run FreeBSD, and I would prefer amd64
> as we havent written or used any of our code on 32 bit in a long
> time, and I would feel uneasy that there might be laten bugs in
> it if we simply recompiled it for 32 bit.
> 
> > I bought one of these from them last year:
> >   http://www.fit-pc.com/new/fit-pc-1-0-specifications.html
> 
> Thanks for the links - thats pretty interesting! I notice the newer
> ones are also Atom based, so similarly spec'd to what I was
> looking at, but they may be more suitable.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> -pete.

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danny

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