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On Fri, 28 Nov 2008, Nicholas Thomas wrote: > On Thursday 27 November 2008 23:45:26 Gordon Henderson wrote: > >>>> I'm starting to really like these atom motherboards... > > Heh, amusingly, we use these a lot at work because their tiny power drain > makes them nice and cheap to run. They make pretty decent servers - not > exactly quad-core opterons, but they do the job, and it means our customers > get cheap dedicated hosts :D. I did seriously look at this recently: http://linitx.com/viewproduct.php?prodid=10404 Only space for one drive each though, however... And the box I built yesterday is going into the data centre for a general purpose LAMPy type server.. > The dual-core (Atom 330) version is better at doing media stuff than the > single-core version was, but if 'twere me, I probably wouldn't use it for > anything particularly heavy-duty in that respect. > > I'm rather eagerly awaiting AMD's answer to the Atom - sensible northbridge, > AMD goodness. What could possibly go wrong? :p They could make it twice the price )-: Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html