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On Sat, 25 Sep 2010, tom wrote:
On 24/09/10 21:27, tom brough wrote:It seems dead in the water when you consider that Chinese Dual core 1Ghz Arm SOC which only took 2W - and as far as I can tell silicon for that should be of the order of $10-20 Now thats ~50x processing (including gpu) for less!On 24/09/10 13:09, Gordon Henderson wrote:http://bifferos.bizhat.com/ £35. Not sure what it would be used for - it's a bit slow @ 150MHz, but it is only 1 watt, and comes with Linux, so easy to use, but maybe not as versatile as the Sheeva plug, etc. units - although this is x86 rather than ARM... Hmm...HeHe I know who really tipped you off about this little gadget ... I suppose a solar panel driven web engine for low volume use might be a possibility. Perhaps data logging for later retrieval via network adaptor (or "real time")
You're (both) right... Relatively cheap for some specialist uses, but way underpowered. Hard to wonder why they went to the effort... Especially with things like the GuruPlug which I've just seen another list member post briefly about on Facebook...
The basic GuruPlug (aka. sheeva plug) looks ideal to run a small asterisk PBX on - however I have problems enough with people simply not beleiving a box as small as the one I currently make (150mm square) could possibly be a PBX that would handle 60 extensions - let alone something that's 'fat' wall-wart sized...
Still - at least in the UK we have plugs that don't come out accidentally or easily...
http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/skins/skin_1/images/guru_serverplus_UK.jpg Gordon
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