From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon May 13 12:27: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from cmailg5.svr.pol.co.uk (cmailg5.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.195.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D903E37B40C for ; Mon, 13 May 2002 12:26:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from modem-3479.bonobo.dialup.pol.co.uk ([217.134.61.151] helo=dupx.freeserve.co.uk) by cmailg5.svr.pol.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 177LT8-0002nj-00; Mon, 13 May 2002 20:26:50 +0100 Message-ID: <3CE01375.4C7728DE@dupx.freeserve.co.uk> Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 20:26:45 +0100 From: Jean-Mark X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mymarrandy@yahoo.com, newbies@freebsd.org Subject: economic low power consumption computer Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Hello > > I`m looking for a low power consumption computer at a reasonable price that > can handle (probably has them on board) Two NIC`s. It will be a > firewall/router/server. > > I have considered a notebook but am not sure that they can handle Two > pcmcia ethernet cards simultaneously. (Although with USB and USB NIC's, > this might work.) > > Some of the really low powered ones on a general search (20 Watts) come > back with a price in the $5-8,000 range. > > I don`t need much more than 500MHz and less than $1,000 would be nice. > > Anyone come across anything. Off-list comments would work as this may be > 'off-topic' for most. Obviously, has to work with FreeBSD. > > Regards... Hello Martin, I would sincerely recommend a Google search of "industrial PC" or "panel PC", as this will return a list of mostly special design PC makers or suppliers where things like power consumption requirements or resistance to environmental agents and so on are the major points of interest hope this helps jeanmark jmdupoux_@_lineone.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message