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It's good that the Artigo is pre-wrapped up in a nice enclosure, but |
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there are a few slightly more impressive fanless devices from MSI that |
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tote dual-core intel atom 330 chips. |
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http://www.logicsupply.com/products/ms_9832 |
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Personally, I would like to get my hands on one of the dual-core atom |
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machines just to have a couple of extra threads available for |
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compiling binary packages. It could easily play a second role as an |
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HTPC, if one were to drop a PCI TV tuner card inside. Although with |
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the change to HDTV, I'm not really sure where PCI TV tuner cards will |
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be in a year or two. |
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On the other hand, I tend to root for the underdog, and hopefully |
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we'll see some competition for the Atom-330 when VIA starts shipping |
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its dual-core Isaiah chips. I'm very tempted to wait until the Nvidia |
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Ion platform is being fabricated, paired with the Via Nano. If I could |
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buy a dual-core Via Nano chip and the GeForce 9400M on the same board, |
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all bets would be off. Although it is wishful thinking, it might not |
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be unrealistic according to [1]. |
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C |
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[1] http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/20/nivida-ion-platform-to-support-via-nano-processors-this-year/ |
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On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Ajai Khattri <ajai@××××.net> wrote: |
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> The perfect device for building a Gentoo-based NAS device? |
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> http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/embedded/artigo/a2000/ |
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