From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <2705a4e0dc6d1da74fd7686164e1a81b@9netics.com> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] compact form server Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 00:08:51 -0800 From: Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1728fdca-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 equivalent AMD process is just fine. it's mainly the processing power. it's to allow me to carry around a cpu+auth+fossil. 40G disks found in inexpensive laptops are plenty big; 1GB RAM, although either 256 or 512 MB would work. 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. > There are several micro-ATX boards which take an > AMD64/Sempron/Turion (socket 754) if you are not > tied to the P4. > > There are usually other considerations than simply > small-footprint. If that's what you want then you > probably also want it to be queit and cool because > you're not sticking it in the basement out of sight. > And will you have discs in it, will you run it with > a monitor, etc.