Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 15:10:31 -0700 From: David King <dking@ketralnis.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quiet computer Message-ID: <560458E8-41A1-4F2F-B5BE-7B3EE3F4B113@ketralnis.com> In-Reply-To: <f34ca13c0609041015k13546b09v4010de3eb243d785@mail.gmail.com> References: <3692C07B-CCCC-4756-9B33-6DA724481FF2@ketralnis.com> <f34ca13c0608200749k6bff68dfs96c96f186404bf0d@mail.gmail.com> <AD8E3F6C-562A-4F1F-86A3-CA9396F9873D@ketralnis.com> <f34ca13c0609041015k13546b09v4010de3eb243d785@mail.gmail.com>
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>>>> 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: <http://sys.us.shuttle.com/X100.aspx>; > 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 :) It runs at just over $1,000 (USD) for the one with the Core Duo. Yes, the Mac Mini does look to be a winner between the two, but I'd like to run FreeBSD natively instead of messing with Boot Camp. You see, instead of trying to hunt down a few years worth of configuration changes and make them all again in a new FreeBSD install, I'd like to move the hard drive right out of my current server into a new one, whereas if FreeBSD isn't running natively but instead requires Boot Camp, I can't do that, as Boot Camp requires a partition on the hard drive (and, to make it in the first place, a space-wasting install of OS X) >> 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) You're right, I stand corrected, it's a Core Duo, not a Core 2 Duo (dumbest name ever). > 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 Yes, but it runs within Boot Camp, instead of being booted directly from EFI, so it requires the aforementioned partition, keeping me from directly moving my hard drive.home | help
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