From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 07:19:22 -0500 To: lucio@proxima.alt.za, 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <42b477df42b02e807aa097ebd81c721e@proxima.alt.za> References: <42b477df42b02e807aa097ebd81c721e@proxima.alt.za> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] gumstix displays Topicbox-Message-UUID: 89c8cfae-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed Dec 8 22:14:45 EST 2010, lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote: > > if you want to go for a cheap atom, i think > > you can beat that price. > > Yes, but two weeks later you can't get the same device anymore, even > though the successor, incompatible in fifteen different ways, is 2 USD > cheaper. And all of it is buggy in some fashion or other. And VGA is > its own reward. that's simply not true. i wouldn't recommend bad solutions. i use this motherboard http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/945/X7SLA.cfm?typ=H and this motherboard http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPE.cfm?typ=H they're not cheep. but with a $100 chassis+power supply, you have a $230-260 computer that's pretty fast (especially compared to a gumstix) and will Just work with 9atom. the first motherboard is completely fanless. these motherboards have been around for more than a year, and they're listed as "embedded", which means long support life. i'm sure there are better and cheeper motherboards out there. i stopped looking when i found one that worked well. - erik