From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [9fans] compact form server From: ems To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: <058f9557c43a648defe0f73f914e65d9@9netics.com> References: <058f9557c43a648defe0f73f914e65d9@9netics.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 18:59:07 +1000 Message-Id: <1144313947.20455.12.camel@heater.intranet.ebr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 30e5dd78-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 http://www.lippert-at.com/index.php?id=362 Seems like what you want. Its EPIC size. -- ems On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 10:05 -0800, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > >>if i could rip the display and keyboard out of an inexpensive laptop > >>and put it in a very thin case, i'd be satisfied. > > If you're going to rip apart an inexpensive laptop to utilise the display & > > keyboard, to attatch it > > to an inexpensive server... wouldn't it be easier to start with an > > inexpensive laptop. I presume that > > we're not setting this up for great lengths of time at any given location. > > Since AMD laptops can be > > had (relatively) cheap, I think it would be easier to use than all the work > > that he was thinking > > (especially given the connections that most laptops use for lcd...). > > no, it's the other way round. i want a very small server. it needs > to have the same cpu/storage/memory config as the typical laptop, but > doesn't need the display or the keyboard. it would be sufficiently > small to have a black box the size of a laptop but smaller thickness > (because no display or keyboard)