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While not directly responding back to the OP, I did answer my own
question: I ordered one of each of the below, both with a 4G SODIMM
and a 68GB SSD.<br>
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href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KR0QHXW/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1"></a><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KR0QHXW/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1">http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KR0QHXW/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1</a><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HVKLSVC/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1">http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HVKLSVC/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1</a><br>
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I am amazed. they both worked with ubuntu flawlessly, both wired
and wireless. Both play 1080P video. I tested halflife2 on one
of them with no issues (via steam).<br>
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For the price of ~$220 each, you can have a dual core intel chip,
4GB RAM and 68GB SSD. Multiply that by 10 and for ~$2200 you have
your own "orangebox" with each node sucking 7w power (or about
$1.81 of power per year, I have had quoted me). One real low
cost, multi-host, highly configurable lab that will run OpenStack,
RHEV, Ovirt, and anything you can imagine, just throw in a switch
and network cables.<br>
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Granted, you will not be able to do heavy lifting with it, but you
can POC the crap out of things and you will not need a new AC to
cool your home lab room. Oh, and they make good media servers and
I read a Steam box, but I have not tried that.<br>
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On 09/04/2014 08:35 PM, Damon L. Chesser wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:5409053D.1010907@damtek.com" type="cite">Hmmm,
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Been thinking about the Orangebox, but at about $15K that is a bit
steep. Wonder if this can be rigged up to provide a "cloud in a
box" for lab POC?
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At $150 each, if you can connect storage and network it is
starting to look attractive indeed.
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not for any real work, but for learning OpenStack goodness.
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On 09/04/2014 07:48 AM, Boris Borisov wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://linuxgizmos.com/android-4-4-mini-pc-packs-64-bit-quad-core-atom-punch/">http://linuxgizmos.com/android-4-4-mini-pc-packs-64-bit-quad-core-atom-punch/</a>
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Is this kind of devices can be named PC. PC for me have BIOS
that loads the
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first sector of boot device which takes over. These devices are
having
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uboot for boot loader that loads Linux kernel primarily so is
very custom.
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