From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 26 19:09:43 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DCA61065670 for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:09:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cwhiteh@onetel.com) Received: from woodbine.london.02.net (woodbine.london.02.net [87.194.255.145]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 223938FC1E for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:09:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from muji2.config (93.97.24.219) by woodbine.london.02.net (8.5.133) id 4D8CD8C900C7C284 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:09:42 +0100 Message-ID: <4DB71875.9030304@onetel.com> Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:09:41 +0100 From: Chris Whitehouse User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100924 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Hardware suggestions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:09:43 -0000 On 26/04/2011 18:45, Jaime Kikpole wrote: > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Chris Brennan wrote: >> Just out of curiosity, why not rack-mounted boxed? > > Space issues. They'll have to either fit on a shelf in one of two > rooms, depending on the outcome of some other things. > > Any thoughts on brand or model? > > Thanks, > Jaime > hi If you google for "low power pc" you'll find some interesting machines mostly mini-itx with atom processors. EG you could have a look at http://www.fit-pc.com/web/fit-pc2/fit-pc2i-specifications/ and http://www.lowpowerpcs.co.uk/ I think some of these have been discussed on this list, certainly mini-itx boards have. chris