[Leaplist] Different netbooks ... CPU and GPU limitations (or not) ...

[Jason Boxman]

Kevin Korb wrote:
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> 
> The second is an Atom N230 (single core 1.6GHz) that I use as my
> firewall/router.  It is in a phone book size box that has 2 PCI slots so I
> had no trouble getting 3 NICs into it.  I don't use the video at all so I
> could care less about the performance there.  I like the low power
> consumption (about 1/3 of the power is used by the 2 PCI NICs I added).
> It is faster than the old AMD K6-2 500MHz system it replaced while using
> less than half the power so I am happy.

I've been thinking about something like that for ages.  How much did it 
cost?  Been using an old Celeron 333MHz box with an Adaptec Quad NIC. 
(Yes, this is sexy.)


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