Comments on: Okay, now this is getting out of hand

By: FreeNAS! « Motho ke motho ka botho

FreeNAS! « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 06:47:55 +0000

[...] do the same things, is that FreeNAS can do it with a smidgin of resources. I playtested it on the VAIO desktop, and there was never any sign of sweating — and by sweating, of course I mean processor [...]

By: factotum218

factotum218 — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 22:33:09 +0000

“500 yen says I can get it from Grub to X in under 20 seconds.”

800 mHz duron, 192 mb of ram… Good god I would hope so! A Slackware 12 install with a slimmed down kernel gets in at about 14 on my wifes p3 600 with 256.

By: Scrub-a-dub-dub « Motho ke motho ka botho

Scrub-a-dub-dub « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 04:33:10 +0000

[...] nice today and since I had a few hours to spare, I thought I’d go ahead and disassemble the VAIO desktop I was bequeathed earlier this week. In actuality it turned out I didn’t need to wait for the good weather because the inside of [...]

By: Preliminary diagnosis for a VAIO PCV-J15 « Motho ke motho ka botho

Preliminary diagnosis for a VAIO PCV-J15 « Motho ke motho ka botho — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:50:18 +0000

[...] Hardware , Linux , Ubuntu I’ve made a few attempts on building complete systems on the hand-me-down VAIO I mentioned a day or two ago. For my money (which was nothing) the machine is working almost [...]

By: eksith

eksith — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 12:24:00 +0000

“500 yen says I can get it from Grub to X in under 20 seconds.”

And “500 Japanese yen = 5.5985 U.S. dollars” as of today, according to Google

You know, I’ve always found that it’s actually far cheaper nowadays to buy parts and put together your own system. I don’t know if it’s the same in Japan (it might be). The plus side is that you can virtually guarantee hardware compatibility depending on which OS you want to install. But of course, it does involve some assembly.

You can put together a very decent machine and probably match a gaming system from one of the major manufacturers for a lot less.
And if you don’t want to get all fancy, you can create a very decent platform for almost half the price.

I’ve installed systems for cyber cafes, and most would rather pay the labour for assembly and build their own systems than buy systems bulk.

Also, newer systems do tend to be far more energy efficient (very important if you have a few computers running at once). You can get smaller power supply units and LCDs always consume less power than equivalent CRTs.

Save the planet and all that…

By: Guitar John

Guitar John — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 23:31:00 +0000

I never knew that Sony had a VAIO desktop. See, I learn something new every time I stop by here.

-John
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