[time-nuts] Lady Heather on a Laptop

[brent evers]

If you get one with three sata ports (more than two usually comes with
four though), plug in three drives - one for the OS and applications,
and two data configured to run as a mirrored raid array - makes a
cheap and easy file server..  I haven't done this but plan to (maybe
I'll do that this weekend).

I also leave an atom running with trixbox to have a small business
voip phone system - rock solid.

Very cool little systems.

Brent

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:52 AM, gary <lists at lazygranch.com> wrote:
> I use a dual core atom as a server. Be sure to read the user reviews on
> Newegg regarding memory. If you try to stuff your Atom to the full 4gbytes,
> only certain sodimms work. You can use the smallest SSDs around for this
> purpose. I built mine with an 80gBbyte intel.
>
> I use win 7 pro 64 bit for software compatibility with certain programs, but
> I would first see if Lady Heather runs under Wine if all you want to do is
> run one program.
>
> Atom PCs are about the easiest to build since you can skip the CPU and heat
> sink mounting.
>
> I'd look for those intel mobos that have the wide input voltage range.
>
> Note an old notebook running 24 and 7 will eventually cost you about what
> the atom system costs. Also, the nice thing about the atom is the CPU clock
> isn't fiddled (unless that has changed). I hate all the power saving
> features in notebook PCs.
>
>
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