From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 4 17:17:31 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8571816A4DF for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 17:17:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mureninc@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 485F643D6A for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 17:17:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mureninc@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i27so1943623wxd for ; Mon, 04 Sep 2006 10:17:13 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=C3YinkGG92B8bjJ/irDTQTY9/26ZOKNnH0U0gdhbBjEHI2ZygTZ6ggKDnEo6fgPAD/KBuMczHF3w29x2SrbqrErm1QTicGxkSc4PGQ962ERwOI2I0HcxXMqP1MgZ5FxhLodl/ONviNBxFeEV0YIHa5HP6M6PkQdVt1CJDu/AWnI= Received: by 10.70.78.4 with SMTP id a4mr8204646wxb; Mon, 04 Sep 2006 10:15:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.78.17 with HTTP; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 10:15:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 13:15:34 -0400 From: "Constantine A. Murenin" To: "David King" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <3692C07B-CCCC-4756-9B33-6DA724481FF2@ketralnis.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quiet computer X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 17:17:31 -0000 On 04/09/06, David King wrote: > >> I am looking for a small computer that is silent or very quiet to sit > >> in a home office. > > I think you might want to wait a month or two until Intel Core 2 > > "Conroe" and "Allendale" become more readily available. > > Indeed (less than a month later), a vendor called Shuttle just > released this machine: I wonder how much this thing costs... They are comparing it against Mac mini on their own web-site, and as far as space, quietness, power consumption and price are concerned, Mac mini is definitely a winner among the two :) > They call it their X100 and it's just smaller than a cereal box. It > has an Intel Core Duo in it. That's not what I was talking about: X100 is based on Core Duo, not Core Duo 2, which is the newest, latest, fastest and cheapest processor available :) You might as well want to wait until the new Mac mini now, rumours say that it's about to be released quite soon: http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0608macmini.html (2006-08-29) BTW, back to your question about FreeBSD on Mac mini, you probably will not have any problems with booting FreeBSD on Mac mini, as it seems to work with OpenBSD after some update by Apple: http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060817213709 Cheers, Constantine.