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On 15/04/11 22:07, Paul Sutton wrote:
Hi Just wondered if this sound a good deal http://www.ebuyer.com/product/236579 I am not looking for anything hi spec, my current duron 1600 gets used for e-mail, web browsing, music, and watching vidoes, etc, I could easily add an external DVD drive if I wanted to watch dvd's I will probably run games on it, such as glest, wesnoth and perhaps open / alien arena and a few other modern Linux games which my current system (mainly due to geforce4 graphics) struggle with. the version of Linux aside, I will put something like ubuntu on it anyway, I take it there are LInux drivers for nvidia ION graphics chip sets. ? Just wondered what people thought to this as a budget system, Paul
Yeah seems okay, 1.8GHz dual core so not too bad, AFAIK the Atom is about on par with a similar spec P4 but the advantage of this is that it has the Nvidia ION chipset which gives better 3D performance and off-loading of video decoding to the graphocs chip (so in theory it would play high definition video without breaking a sweat).
The ION chipsets are supported by the proprietory NVidia driver, not sure about the FLOSS drivers, I gather NVidia support is improving all the time.
There is the added advantage that it's low power and quiet too and it doesn't take up much space so yeah I'd say it's worth it for the money.
There are similar machines available from Asus (the Eeebox I believe) which I can't seem to find available now (but reviews suggest it's priced around £230) and the Foxconn Net top which I did find but was more expensive and not as good spec.
So I think for what you want it's a good price and a reasonable spec (although maybe do a bit of googling just to double check, should probably be fine though).
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