I have just today received this:

http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=104#JBC365

a Jetway Jetway JBC365 Fanless Dual LAN PC with quad core cpu.

Wedged a 4GB stick of RAM in (which passed 1 cycle of Memtest86) and
also a 240GB Sandisk Extreme Pro SSD (SATA).

Only criticism is it's a bit fiddly getting the HDD cables to fold up
nicely away from pointy pin headers, but after a few goes I found a
reasonable way to lay them. You can stick mSATA sticks in but the
chipset is a bit fussy and does not like all types of SSD (in particular
it's not been tested with Plextor or Sandisk - the only 2 types I will
touch).

But boy, it is *small*. I want it to be an Internet gateway, firewall,
essential services like DNS, DHCP and critical filestore ( $HOME
basically). The 2 gig ports lend it to that (though of course you could
pull a VLAN stunt with one port).

It's running Mint linux 64 bit live right now and I'm stress testing the
crap out of it. Bonnie++ results are good, got 8 cpuburn processes going
at once and the temperatures are after about 1/2 hour (with room at
about 20C and this thing has no fans):

Disk internal temp: 42C

CPU cores: 49-52C

System temp: 47C/27C (I suspect that is chipset/ambient board)

All of those have a very large margin before maximums.

When I've finished a badblocks run, I try it for feel of Mint - but I
suspect it could also make a quite convincing media device (stapped to
the back of a TV) or even a plausible desktop machine.


Only just got it so it could go bang tomorrow - but thought some folk
might me interested...