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Tim Watts[_3_] January 22nd 15 03:33 PM

[OT] Cool tiny tiny PC
 
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...

Brian Gaff[_2_] January 22nd 15 05:51 PM

[OT] Cool tiny tiny PC
 
OK whats it actually cost though...
Brian

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From the Sofa of Brian Gaff Reply address is active
"Tim Watts" wrote in message
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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...




Bod[_3_] January 22nd 15 06:15 PM

[OT] Cool tiny tiny PC
 
On 22/01/2015 17:51, Huge wrote:
On 2015-01-22, Tim Watts wrote:
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...


I am. I need a smaller, less power hungry machine to run my Smoothwall on.


I've read some good reports on these mini PCs and they seem to perform
very well considering the miniscule size of them.
I'm watching with interest and may well buy one, but I'll wait to see if
more competition improves them even more.

Tim Watts[_3_] January 22nd 15 06:54 PM

[OT] Cool tiny tiny PC
 
On 22/01/15 17:51, Huge wrote:
On 2015-01-22, Tim Watts wrote:


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


I am. I need a smaller, less power hungry machine to run my Smoothwall on.



I have not speedtested the Realtek NICs yet - that will probably be next
week - happy to post the result - I'll do some iperf tests using both
and see how hard it hits the CPU and if the NICs actually have drive at
line speed more or less[1]


[1] Probably these days, but years ago, ****e NICs would manage maybe
40% of the line speed unless they were good Intel ones.

If you are happy with the mSATA offerings that are stated compatible,
(Kingston, Intel) they would be easier to fit. I went for Sandisk
Extreme Pro regular SATA as for no extra money, it has a 10 year guarantee.

Tim Watts[_3_] January 22nd 15 06:56 PM

[OT] Cool tiny tiny PC
 
On 22/01/15 17:51, Brian Gaff wrote:
OK whats it actually cost though...


£186 plus RAM plus disk

4GB SODIMM RAM was £40

Disk was about £100 for 240GB of 10 year guaranteed Sandisk SSD.

Has 4 USB ports, 2 NICs, 1 DVI out that can drive VGA via supllied adaptor.

Comes with DIN rail clips, feet to stand up and wall mount brackets.

External PSU.


Tim Watts[_3_] January 22nd 15 06:57 PM

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On 22/01/15 18:15, Bod wrote:

I've read some good reports on these mini PCs and they seem to perform


very well considering the miniscule size of them.
I'm watching with interest and may well buy one, but I'll wait to see if
more competition improves them even more.


I've just had my son hammer the linux screensavers a bit and he thought
they were pretty smooth.

It's is probably not as fast as an i3 laptop, but it feels usable (need
to hook up to internet to try youtube) but it does kick an Atom's arse
off into the next field.

Bod[_3_] January 22nd 15 07:00 PM

[OT] Cool tiny tiny PC
 
On 22/01/2015 18:56, Tim Watts wrote:
On 22/01/15 17:51, Brian Gaff wrote:
OK whats it actually cost though...


£186 plus RAM plus disk

4GB SODIMM RAM was £40

Disk was about £100 for 240GB of 10 year guaranteed Sandisk SSD.

Has 4 USB ports, 2 NICs, 1 DVI out that can drive VGA via supllied adaptor.

Comes with DIN rail clips, feet to stand up and wall mount brackets.

External PSU.

USB2 or USB3 or both?

Bod[_3_] January 22nd 15 07:02 PM

[OT] Cool tiny tiny PC
 
On 22/01/2015 18:57, Tim Watts wrote:
On 22/01/15 18:15, Bod wrote:

I've read some good reports on these mini PCs and they seem to perform


very well considering the miniscule size of them.
I'm watching with interest and may well buy one, but I'll wait to see if
more competition improves them even more.


I've just had my son hammer the linux screensavers a bit and he thought
they were pretty smooth.

It's is probably not as fast as an i3 laptop, but it feels usable (need
to hook up to internet to try youtube) but it does kick an Atom's arse
off into the next field.

Ok, thanks for the info.

Tim Watts[_3_] January 22nd 15 08:18 PM

[OT] Cool tiny tiny PC
 
On 22/01/15 19:00, Bod wrote:

USB2 or USB3 or both?



Good question...

Spec says 2 USB2 and 2 USB3

[email protected] January 22nd 15 08:29 PM

[OT] Cool tiny tiny PC
 
On Thursday, 22 January 2015 19:00:16 UTC, Bod wrote:
USB2 or USB3 or both?


Depends on the model, but some models have USB3 on the front and USB2 on the back.

Owain


Bod[_3_] January 22nd 15 08:30 PM

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On 22/01/2015 20:18, Tim Watts wrote:
On 22/01/15 19:00, Bod wrote:

USB2 or USB3 or both?



Good question...

Spec says 2 USB2 and 2 USB3

That's good, but I can't understand why they don't install all USB3s,
seeing as USB3s are backward compatible with USB2s.

Bod[_3_] January 22nd 15 08:33 PM

[OT] Cool tiny tiny PC
 
On 22/01/2015 20:29, wrote:
On Thursday, 22 January 2015 19:00:16 UTC, Bod wrote:
USB2 or USB3 or both?


Depends on the model, but some models have USB3 on the front and USB2 on the back.

Owain

Yes, I've checked other models, but thanks.

Andrew Gabriel January 22nd 15 09:39 PM

[OT] Cool tiny tiny PC
 
In article ,
Bod writes:
That's good, but I can't understand why they don't install all USB3s,
seeing as USB3s are backward compatible with USB2s.


Drivers are not. An OS release which doesn't know about USB3 at all
will not be able to use the USB3 ports at all, even in fall-back.

--
Andrew

Bod[_3_] January 23rd 15 07:21 AM

[OT] Cool tiny tiny PC
 
On 22/01/2015 21:39, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
In article ,
Bod writes:
That's good, but I can't understand why they don't install all USB3s,
seeing as USB3s are backward compatible with USB2s.


Drivers are not. An OS release which doesn't know about USB3 at all
will not be able to use the USB3 ports at all, even in fall-back.

USB3 flash sticks work fine on Windows 7 and even XP with USB2 sockets.

I've not tried them on my Linux system (Zorin).

Bod[_3_] January 23rd 15 07:27 AM

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On 23/01/2015 07:21, Bod wrote:
On 22/01/2015 21:39, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
In article ,
Bod writes:
That's good, but I can't understand why they don't install all USB3s,
seeing as USB3s are backward compatible with USB2s.


Drivers are not. An OS release which doesn't know about USB3 at all
will not be able to use the USB3 ports at all, even in fall-back.

USB3 flash sticks work fine on Windows 7 and even XP with USB2 sockets.

I've not tried them on my Linux system (Zorin).

USB3 *are* compatible with USB2, but a USB stick will only run at the
USB2 speed.

http://www.integralmemory.com/faq/us...le-usb-2-ports

Dennis@home January 23rd 15 08:04 AM

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On 23/01/2015 07:27, Bod wrote:
On 23/01/2015 07:21, Bod wrote:
On 22/01/2015 21:39, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
In article ,
Bod writes:
That's good, but I can't understand why they don't install all USB3s,
seeing as USB3s are backward compatible with USB2s.

Drivers are not. An OS release which doesn't know about USB3 at all
will not be able to use the USB3 ports at all, even in fall-back.

USB3 flash sticks work fine on Windows 7 and even XP with USB2 sockets.

I've not tried them on my Linux system (Zorin).

USB3 *are* compatible with USB2, but a USB stick will only run at the
USB2 speed.

http://www.integralmemory.com/faq/us...le-usb-2-ports


ITHM loading an old OS wont be able to find the USB3 chips so the ports
wont work.

RailMaster doesn't like the USB3 ports on my thinkpad yoga so they
aren't that compatible.

Bod[_3_] January 23rd 15 08:28 AM

[OT] Cool tiny tiny PC
 
On 23/01/2015 08:04, Dennis@home wrote:
On 23/01/2015 07:27, Bod wrote:
On 23/01/2015 07:21, Bod wrote:
On 22/01/2015 21:39, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
In article ,
Bod writes:
That's good, but I can't understand why they don't install all USB3s,
seeing as USB3s are backward compatible with USB2s.

Drivers are not. An OS release which doesn't know about USB3 at all
will not be able to use the USB3 ports at all, even in fall-back.

USB3 flash sticks work fine on Windows 7 and even XP with USB2 sockets.

I've not tried them on my Linux system (Zorin).

USB3 *are* compatible with USB2, but a USB stick will only run at the
USB2 speed.

http://www.integralmemory.com/faq/us...le-usb-2-ports



ITHM loading an old OS wont be able to find the USB3 chips so the ports
wont work.

RailMaster doesn't like the USB3 ports on my thinkpad yoga so they
aren't that compatible.

Maybe, but they even work on my oldest computer, using a 2001
installation of XP Pro.
I fix lots of computers for people and I've not had a USB3 not work on
any of them. Believe me, some of them are really ancient pooters.

Tim Watts[_3_] January 23rd 15 11:03 AM

[OT] Cool tiny tiny PC
 
On 23/01/15 10:59, Huge wrote:
On 2015-01-22, Tim Watts wrote:
On 22/01/15 17:51, Brian Gaff wrote:
OK whats it actually cost though...


£186 plus RAM plus disk

4GB SODIMM RAM was £40

Disk was about £100 for 240GB of 10 year guaranteed Sandisk SSD.

Has 4 USB ports, 2 NICs,


Hmmm. I need 3 NICs. Any way to do that?


If you have a look on the original link, IIRC there's one with 4 NICs.



Tim Watts[_3_] January 23rd 15 11:03 AM

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On 23/01/15 11:03, Tim Watts wrote:
On 23/01/15 10:59, Huge wrote:
On 2015-01-22, Tim Watts wrote:
On 22/01/15 17:51, Brian Gaff wrote:
OK whats it actually cost though...

£186 plus RAM plus disk

4GB SODIMM RAM was £40

Disk was about £100 for 240GB of 10 year guaranteed Sandisk SSD.

Has 4 USB ports, 2 NICs,


Hmmm. I need 3 NICs. Any way to do that?


If you have a look on the original link, IIRC there's one with 4 NICs.




Or VLANs?

Andrew Gabriel January 23rd 15 11:23 AM

[OT] Cool tiny tiny PC
 
In article ,
Bod writes:
Maybe, but they even work on my oldest computer, using a 2001
installation of XP Pro.
I fix lots of computers for people and I've not had a USB3 not work on
any of them. Believe me, some of them are really ancient pooters.


There is no xHCI driver in Windows XP, so it can't talk to a USB3 port
at all. Some BIOS's will detect an OS with no xHCI support and flip the
port back to USB2, so the eHCI (USB2) driver will then attach. This is
a function of the BIOS (Intel call it Smart Auto mode in the BIOS).
If you have a system with USB3 ports, the drivers which come with the
system may have an xHCI driver for Windows XP, which will then work.

USB devices are backwards compatible, but the USB port register
specification never has been (USB1.1 to 2, or 2 to 3), so you need the
right driver which can bind to the port, and it can then fall back if
it has an older spec USB device attached.

--
Andrew

Andrew Gabriel January 23rd 15 11:25 AM

[OT] Cool tiny tiny PC
 
In article ,
Tim Watts writes:
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).


I would be interested to know the idling power consumption.

--
Andrew

Tim Watts[_3_] January 23rd 15 12:17 PM

[OT] Cool tiny tiny PC
 
On 23/01/15 11:25, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
In article ,
Tim Watts writes:
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).


I would be interested to know the idling power consumption.


I will not be able to do that sadly - I don't have a spare power meter
right now.

But my guesstimate is it will be in the 10-20W region based on how warm
the case gets with no fan.

Tim Watts[_3_] January 23rd 15 12:21 PM

[OT] Cool tiny tiny PC
 
On 23/01/15 11:39, Huge wrote:
On 2015-01-23, Tim Watts wrote:
On 23/01/15 10:59, Huge wrote:
On 2015-01-22, Tim Watts wrote:
On 22/01/15 17:51, Brian Gaff wrote:
OK whats it actually cost though...

£186 plus RAM plus disk

4GB SODIMM RAM was £40

Disk was about £100 for 240GB of 10 year guaranteed Sandisk SSD.

Has 4 USB ports, 2 NICs,

Hmmm. I need 3 NICs. Any way to do that?


If you have a look on the original link, IIRC there's one with 4 NICs.


Betterer and betterer. Thank you.



I've just emailed mini-itx back (they know their products) and asked:

How are certain mSATA cards not compatible with the BayTrain chipset -
totally not working or (worse) subtle problems.

I did also give some feedback on the amount of strain the SATA cables
and suggested a cable a right angled plugs (data and powwer, board end)
and extra flexible data cabled would help.

I think it will be OK - the warmth will probably let the stress out of
the cables and on my 4th or so go to pre-fold the wires so they lay
reasonably well, it was not too hard to get the case lid on. But I come
from the school of "permanent strain on connectors is bad, mmmkay?".

Bit of a Sinclair-ism - if Jetway had made the case 1/4" thicker it
would have made all the difference.

Martin Bonner January 23rd 15 02:33 PM

[OT] Cool tiny tiny PC
 
On Friday, 23 January 2015 08:28:19 UTC, Bod wrote:
On 23/01/2015 08:04, Dennis@home wrote:
On 23/01/2015 07:27, Bod wrote:
On 23/01/2015 07:21, Bod wrote:
On 22/01/2015 21:39, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
In article ,
Bod writes:
That's good, but I can't understand why they don't install all USB3s,
seeing as USB3s are backward compatible with USB2s.

Drivers are not. An OS release which doesn't know about USB3 at all
will not be able to use the USB3 ports at all, even in fall-back.

USB3 flash sticks work fine on Windows 7 and even XP with USB2 sockets.

I've not tried them on my Linux system (Zorin).

USB3 *are* compatible with USB2, but a USB stick will only run at the
USB2 speed.

http://www.integralmemory.com/faq/us...le-usb-2-ports



ITHM loading an old OS wont be able to find the USB3 chips so the ports
wont work.

RailMaster doesn't like the USB3 ports on my thinkpad yoga so they
aren't that compatible.

Maybe, but they even work on my oldest computer, using a 2001
installation of XP Pro.
I fix lots of computers for people and I've not had a USB3 not work on
any of them. Believe me, some of them are really ancient pooters.


You misunderstand the problem. A USB3 device plugged into a USB2 port
on an ancient machine running an OS that doesn't know about USB3 will work
fine.

The problem is that if you take a shiny new computer with a USB3 port on
it, and then install an aged OS that doesn't know about USB3 driver chips,
the aged OS won't be able to talk to those driver chips (and hence won't
be able to talk to the port). Thus if one is selling shiny new hardware,
it makes (some) sense to leave a USB2 driver chip connected to a couple
of USB2 ports in order that above aged OS can still talk to something.


Bod[_3_] January 23rd 15 04:01 PM

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On 23/01/2015 14:33, Martin Bonner wrote:
On Friday, 23 January 2015 08:28:19 UTC, Bod wrote:
On 23/01/2015 08:04, Dennis@home wrote:
On 23/01/2015 07:27, Bod wrote:
On 23/01/2015 07:21, Bod wrote:
On 22/01/2015 21:39, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
In article ,
Bod writes:
That's good, but I can't understand why they don't install all USB3s,
seeing as USB3s are backward compatible with USB2s.

Drivers are not. An OS release which doesn't know about USB3 at all
will not be able to use the USB3 ports at all, even in fall-back.

USB3 flash sticks work fine on Windows 7 and even XP with USB2 sockets.

I've not tried them on my Linux system (Zorin).

USB3 *are* compatible with USB2, but a USB stick will only run at the
USB2 speed.

http://www.integralmemory.com/faq/us...le-usb-2-ports



ITHM loading an old OS wont be able to find the USB3 chips so the ports
wont work.

RailMaster doesn't like the USB3 ports on my thinkpad yoga so they
aren't that compatible.

Maybe, but they even work on my oldest computer, using a 2001
installation of XP Pro.
I fix lots of computers for people and I've not had a USB3 not work on
any of them. Believe me, some of them are really ancient pooters.


You misunderstand the problem. A USB3 device plugged into a USB2 port
on an ancient machine running an OS that doesn't know about USB3 will work
fine.

The problem is that if you take a shiny new computer with a USB3 port on
it, and then install an aged OS that doesn't know about USB3 driver chips,
the aged OS won't be able to talk to those driver chips (and hence won't
be able to talk to the port). Thus if one is selling shiny new hardware,
it makes (some) sense to leave a USB2 driver chip connected to a couple
of USB2 ports in order that above aged OS can still talk to something.

Hmm! it would be an unusual person who paid hundreds for a brand new
latest Windows computer, who would then put a prehistoric system on it.

[email protected] January 23rd 15 04:04 PM

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Tim Watts wrote:
[snip description of tiny PC]

I've looked at these, but they've never quite been what I want.

For a compact, basic (but 'real') PC I use RaspberryPi or BeagleBone
Black.

For an efficent server box with space for disk drives etc. I've just
discovered Fujitsu Esprimo, Morgan Computers have an Esprimo P910 at
about £200 and it runs at an idle power consumption of abot 20 watts.
Excellent NAS system, lots of space for disk drives, and being quad
code I5 has lots of processing power.

--
Chris Green
·

[email protected] January 23rd 15 04:05 PM

[OT] Cool tiny tiny PC
 
Tim Watts wrote:
On 22/01/15 17:51, Brian Gaff wrote:
OK whats it actually cost though...


£186 plus RAM plus disk

4GB SODIMM RAM was £40

Disk was about £100 for 240GB of 10 year guaranteed Sandisk SSD.

Has 4 USB ports, 2 NICs, 1 DVI out that can drive VGA via supllied adaptor.

Comes with DIN rail clips, feet to stand up and wall mount brackets.

External PSU.

Blimey! Buy a proper PC with space for that, or buy a RaspberryPi for
£25.

--
Chris Green
·

[email protected] January 23rd 15 04:06 PM

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On Friday, January 23, 2015 at 2:33:42 PM UTC, Martin Bonner wrote:
On Friday, 23 January 2015 08:28:19 UTC, Bod wrote:
On 23/01/2015 08:04, Dennis@home wrote:
On 23/01/2015 07:27, Bod wrote:
On 23/01/2015 07:21, Bod wrote:
On 22/01/2015 21:39, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
In article ,
Bod writes:


That's good, but I can't understand why they don't install all USB3s,
seeing as USB3s are backward compatible with USB2s.


There's no point having usb3 for things like mice, keyboard etc. So why pay the extra 2p.


NT

[email protected] January 23rd 15 04:07 PM

[OT] Cool tiny tiny PC
 
Tim Watts wrote:
On 23/01/15 11:25, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
In article ,
Tim Watts writes:
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).


I would be interested to know the idling power consumption.


I will not be able to do that sadly - I don't have a spare power meter
right now.

But my guesstimate is it will be in the 10-20W region based on how warm
the case gets with no fan.


No less than my full-sized Fujitsu Esprimo P910.

--
Chris Green
·

Adrian January 23rd 15 04:29 PM

[OT] Cool tiny tiny PC
 
On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 08:06:48 -0800, meow2222 wrote:

There's no point having usb3 for things like mice, keyboard etc.


Depends how fast you type, of course...

Tim Watts[_3_] January 23rd 15 04:45 PM

[OT] Cool tiny tiny PC
 
On 23/01/15 16:05, wrote:
Tim Watts wrote:
On 22/01/15 17:51, Brian Gaff wrote:
OK whats it actually cost though...


£186 plus RAM plus disk

4GB SODIMM RAM was £40

Disk was about £100 for 240GB of 10 year guaranteed Sandisk SSD.

Has 4 USB ports, 2 NICs, 1 DVI out that can drive VGA via supllied adaptor.

Comes with DIN rail clips, feet to stand up and wall mount brackets.

External PSU.

Blimey! Buy a proper PC with space for that, or buy a RaspberryPi for
£25.


I don't want a "proper PC" in my router shelf

And "Raspberry Pi" would have to be a seriously rediculous statement to
make - how am I going to route 80Mbit/sec IP through a Pi plus internal
1gig?

Bod[_3_] January 23rd 15 04:45 PM

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On 23/01/2015 16:06, wrote:
On Friday, January 23, 2015 at 2:33:42 PM UTC, Martin Bonner wrote:
On Friday, 23 January 2015 08:28:19 UTC, Bod wrote:
On 23/01/2015 08:04, Dennis@home wrote:
On 23/01/2015 07:27, Bod wrote:
On 23/01/2015 07:21, Bod wrote:
On 22/01/2015 21:39, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
In article ,
Bod writes:


That's good, but I can't understand why they don't install all USB3s,
seeing as USB3s are backward compatible with USB2s.


There's no point having usb3 for things like mice, keyboard etc. So why pay the extra 2p.


NT

Well all of my plug in devices are USB3 and my keyboard & mouse are
wireless, so it would be silly to go backwards in my case.
USB 3.1(I think it's named 3.1) is coming out in the near future BTW.

Tim Watts[_3_] January 23rd 15 04:47 PM

[OT] Cool tiny tiny PC
 
On 23/01/15 16:04, wrote:
Fujitsu Esprimo


That's pretty sweet. THAT might be a good candidate for real desktop use
- I have not tried hammering the Jetway hard as a desktop, but I suspect
it's graphics chip is not going to be the most rapid...

Dave Liquorice[_2_] January 23rd 15 05:23 PM

[OT] Cool tiny tiny PC
 
On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 16:04:36 +0000, wrote:

For an efficent server box with space for disk drives etc. I've just
discovered Fujitsu Esprimo, Morgan Computers have an Esprimo P910 at
about £200 ...


£200 made me look but all I can find is £329.95 inc VAT Courier
Delivery £6.99 on the Morgan site.

Or "manufacturer refurbished" on eBay £315.95 delivered from seller
"morgancomputers".

Reason for looking is that I have a feeling I'm going to dragged into
the 21st centuary in the next month or so. Very slowly more things
are not working properly under OS/2 Warp3 (patched for net access).
Latest creeping disease is SSL certificates being "invalid or
corupted", wasn't worried until the certificate of my ISP changed
yesterday. B-(

But what ever I get must have enough grunt to run OS/2 in a VM and
consume as little power as possible. My current 10+ old machine (1
GHz single core Athlon) draws about 100W, does help keep the room
warm though. B-)

--
Cheers
Dave.




[email protected] January 23rd 15 05:58 PM

[OT] Cool tiny tiny PC
 
Tim Watts wrote:
On 23/01/15 16:04, wrote:
Fujitsu Esprimo


That's pretty sweet. THAT might be a good candidate for real desktop use
- I have not tried hammering the Jetway hard as a desktop, but I suspect
it's graphics chip is not going to be the most rapid...


I'm using one as my desktop machine, excellent so far.

--
Chris Green
·

[email protected] January 23rd 15 06:01 PM

[OT] Cool tiny tiny PC
 
Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 16:04:36 +0000, wrote:

For an efficent server box with space for disk drives etc. I've just
discovered Fujitsu Esprimo, Morgan Computers have an Esprimo P910 at
about £200 ...


£200 made me look but all I can find is £329.95 inc VAT Courier
Delivery £6.99 on the Morgan site.

Or "manufacturer refurbished" on eBay £315.95 delivered from seller
"morgancomputers".

Sorry, I mis-remembered it, I bought mine for about £270 which is easy
enough as you can nearly always get an extra 10% off the Morgan prices.


Reason for looking is that I have a feeling I'm going to dragged into
the 21st centuary in the next month or so. Very slowly more things
are not working properly under OS/2 Warp3 (patched for net access).
Latest creeping disease is SSL certificates being "invalid or
corupted", wasn't worried until the certificate of my ISP changed
yesterday. B-(

But what ever I get must have enough grunt to run OS/2 in a VM and
consume as little power as possible. My current 10+ old machine (1
GHz single core Athlon) draws about 100W, does help keep the room
warm though. B-)

I run XP and Win7 in VirtualBox on my Esprimo, they whizz along.

I left OS/2 many moons ago and, after a brief foray into Win2k I moved
to Linux.

--
Chris Green
·

Dave Liquorice[_2_] January 23rd 15 07:08 PM

[OT] Cool tiny tiny PC
 
On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 18:01:34 +0000, wrote:

Sorry, I mis-remembered it, I bought mine for about £270 which is easy
enough as you can nearly always get an extra 10% off the Morgan prices..


No problem.

I run XP and Win7 in VirtualBox on my Esprimo, they whizz along.


As I said I'm 20th centuary, Desqview was in use before OS/2 as a
virtual machine multitasking enviroment. Modern VM's I know SFA
about. VirtualBox is that an OS that hosts other OS's or something
you run under say Win7 that then allows other OS's to run?

I left OS/2 many moons ago and, after a brief foray into Win2k


This machine can dual boot betwen OS/2 and WIn2k but Win2K is
probably even more broke than OS/2. I have data/files going back to
at least 1998 that comes from OS/2 programmes, which I'm more than
happy to continue using, hence the requirement to be able to run
OS/2.

... I moved to Linux.


I keep wandering off to look but I've yet to be won over by any linux
desktop compared to Presentation Manager on OS/2. They have the
annoying restrictions that the Windows desktop has. Dialogue open?
You can only move or switch to a limited set of windows.

--
Cheers
Dave.




Dennis@home January 23rd 15 07:16 PM

[OT] Cool tiny tiny PC
 
On 23/01/2015 16:45, Tim Watts wrote:

And "Raspberry Pi" would have to be a seriously rediculous statement to
make - how am I going to route 80Mbit/sec IP through a Pi plus internal
1gig?


My ADSL router manages more than that with less processing power than a
Pi so it is doable.


[email protected] January 23rd 15 07:28 PM

[OT] Cool tiny tiny PC
 
On Friday, January 23, 2015 at 7:13:06 PM UTC, Dave Liquorice wrote:

I keep wandering off to look but I've yet to be won over by any linux
desktop compared to Presentation Manager on OS/2. They have the
annoying restrictions that the Windows desktop has. Dialogue open?
You can only move or switch to a limited set of windows.


maybe if the question were clearer


NT

Bod[_3_] January 23rd 15 07:41 PM

[OT] Cool tiny tiny PC
 
On 23/01/2015 19:08, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 18:01:34 +0000, wrote:

Sorry, I mis-remembered it, I bought mine for about £270 which is easy
enough as you can nearly always get an extra 10% off the Morgan prices.


No problem.

I run XP and Win7 in VirtualBox on my Esprimo, they whizz along.


As I said I'm 20th centuary, Desqview was in use before OS/2 as a
virtual machine multitasking enviroment. Modern VM's I know SFA
about. VirtualBox is that an OS that hosts other OS's or something
you run under say Win7 that then allows other OS's to run?

I left OS/2 many moons ago and, after a brief foray into Win2k


This machine can dual boot betwen OS/2 and WIn2k but Win2K is
probably even more broke than OS/2. I have data/files going back to
at least 1998 that comes from OS/2 programmes, which I'm more than
happy to continue using, hence the requirement to be able to run
OS/2.

... I moved to Linux.


I keep wandering off to look but I've yet to be won over by any linux
desktop compared to Presentation Manager on OS/2. They have the
annoying restrictions that the Windows desktop has. Dialogue open?
You can only move or switch to a limited set of windows.

I use Linux distro Zorin 9 and it has a *Look Changer*, I've set mine to
Windows 7 look.


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