[Gllug] Asus EeePC 701 on offer from Expansys again

[Peter Corlett]

On 25 Aug 2008, at 15:02, John Winters wrote:
> Peter Corlett wrote:
[...]
>> Wouldn't the Viglen MPC-L be better-suited to being a server?
> IIRC, I rejected that one because of its very low power processor
> (oomph, not watts).

The Eee uses a Celeron-M underclocked to 630MHz, versus a 400MHz Geode  
in the MPC-L. If you can tell the difference outside of benchmarks,  
I'd be surprised.

You'll be able to do software RAID5 across a pile of USB disks and  
still have plenty of CPU left over.


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