Planky
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Its been a while since Ive had a mini-itx computer (ignoring the new commodore 64 I bought) and felt like delving into them again to see how things have progressed since several years ago. So a few weeks back I ordered various parts to build a small computer. Finally arrived the other week and have just built it
Love minimalist approaches to computers.
Intel D2500HN Mini-ITX Motherboard. Runs Dual core atom at 1.86Ghz. I threw in a 2gb SODIMM, will pick up another at some point. Only regret is not getting the next model up which had DVI/HDMI. Here you can also see the pico PSU. Has one molex and sata connector - more than sufficient to run the cpu/ssd and a couple of USB devices.
Circuit board in the bottom left is for two usb ports - hidden by the front bezel. The sata SSD can be seen under the drive/fan tray in the top left. Need to get a shorter sata cable.
Threw Ubuntu 9.01 on (hate Unity) and its happily running away. I have a couple options for it, one bolt it to the back of an old monitor and use in my bedroom for downloaded tv/movies, two use as a car PC with some free GPS software. Or build a couple of them and make a beowulf cluster :)- Show previous comments 8 more
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Mr. T said:The lack of USB ports isn't actually as bad as you might think. They are all double power to support charging an iPad, so there is plenty of juice to plug whatever into a hub (Apple wired keyboards have two for example.)
Heh, and to think that the G3 PowerMac from 2001, with a case weighing a beastly 25 kg, had nothing but a couple of underpowered v1.1 USB ports, that craped out as soon as you plug a SINGLE multi-GB stick, and you had to sacrifice one just to plug in the keyboard + daisy-chained mouse.
Not really robust design for a company that hoped to phase out everything legacy, and very poor even by Apple's 2001 standards. - Show next comments 3 more
