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- akkibaba, on 11/30/2007, -7/+46God damn it I can calculate faster than 200 Mhz using an abacus and a cup of coffee.
- chris9902, on 11/30/2007, -6/+44£199? ***** that.
- fraggle35, on 11/30/2007, -1/+26It should be 8 watts,
See the official site and specs.
http://www.aleutia.com/products/e1specs.html - ArthurSucks, on 11/30/2007, -3/+27It's slick, but a touch pricey.
- Slick42, on 11/30/2007, -1/+18That's a joke.
The Israeli FitPC has better specs at a lower price with less power consumption.
500MHz Geode
256MB Ram
40GB HDD
2x Ethernet
only 5W Power consumption
$285+$40 - raynar, on 11/30/2007, -1/+15It's intentionally slow so you'll go outside and meet a girl.
- Lazrath, on 11/30/2007, -2/+15 * Processor: 200MHz x86 CPU, Memory: 128MB SDRAM, Storage: 2GB (included Compact Flash card), Power Supply (US, UK, or EU).
* 3 x USB 2.0 ports (12Mbps transfer rate), 1 x 10/100 Ethernet port, VGA port to connect LCD display (supports resolutions up to 1280x1024)
* Power consumption of 8W with CPU and SDRAM running at full speed. With external devices (USB 2.0 CD Rewriter, USB-powered hard drive) power consumption rises to 11W.
200mhz is pretty low, i'd rather see something a bit more like a 1ghz as a base for such a computer, 500mhz to 1ghz anyway - liquidpele, on 11/30/2007, -1/+13It's pretty standard. You can buy these things all over....
16 Watts: http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4357200751.html
2 Watts: http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6858563145.html
around 10 watts: http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-mini-alternativ ...
The trick is just using the mini-itx board, a low-power processor, and no moving parts. That's pretty much it. - Nidy1, on 11/30/2007, -0/+11To decode sarcasm?
- mochouinard, on 11/30/2007, -1/+12This machine actually cost 99$ and is in available in different options
http://www.norhtec.com/products/index.html
http://www.wdlsystems.com/modperl/view_services.cg ... - Psythik, on 11/30/2007, -0/+10Yeah but my PSP has a faster processor! They seriously couldn't've beefed up the CPU a bit?
- Algfrig, on 11/30/2007, -3/+12The quoted specs for the Aleutia includes the power needed for the monitor as well. Just the computer, running with full CPU and SDRAM takes only 8w.
http://www.aleutia.com/products/e1specs.html - rhedrick, on 11/30/2007, -1/+10200 mhz - kinda pitiful, but cute.
- Binarydemon, on 11/30/2007, -2/+11You might have to overclock it... ;)
- dupswapdrop, on 11/30/2007, -2/+11Nice may buy this for the car, lets see look at the road, look at the computer screen. What could go wrong?
- dgh1973, on 11/30/2007, -0/+9Interesting, but for the price the Eeepc or OLPC gives much more bang for the buck.
I see others have found it at $99 - a much more reasonable price IMHO. - Icetype, on 11/30/2007, -1/+9How does everyone know how many watts their stuff is using? Does everyone own a Kill-A-Watt?
- PlagueMonkey, on 11/30/2007, -0/+7"can be solar powered"
I'm wracking my brain for a list of electronic devices that can't be solar powered. - litolist, on 11/30/2007, -0/+7Then it sounds like it might be using too much. :-P
From the article:
"This mini PC uses just 8 watts of power which is a quarter of the power used by the average laptop" - Giblet2, on 11/30/2007, -3/+10Hard drive barely used? thats a crock of crap.
Oh and "The 65nm Core 2 Duo idles at 14.3 watts.", throw in 2 512MB stick of memory, an LCD screen, and you are full of *****.
Sauce: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2068252 ... - richardiscool, on 11/30/2007, -0/+7You might want to let the iPod Linux people how you managed to do that...
- sdenike, on 11/30/2007, -2/+8I think it would be nice if it had maybe a 500mhz proc. But 200mhz... not really that great.
- jambarama, on 11/30/2007, -0/+6My laptop, according to powertop, pulls at most 14 watts, with all the power saving options it only takes 7.5 watts. That includes a monitor too (laptop screen). If the manufacturer wants it to be a desktop, they just need to detach the keyboard, add a mouse, and put the hardware on the back of the monitor with a nice stand.
Wasn't there a 1watt 1ghz new chip recently? Why is this news again? - blandrys, on 11/30/2007, -4/+10this is an absurd statement :
"18 watts of power which is a quarter of the power used by the average laptop"
my centrino laptop has a max. power usage at 65W, which is only ever approached when charging the battery. normal running power (web browsing, playing mp3 & 15inch screen at half illumination) is around 20-25W. and this is a 3 year old laptop.... I've been running it off solar since I bought it. thus, here is another stupid statement :
"can be solar powered"
one regular size solar panel will give out around 50W, which is enough to run most laptops (except for charging) - potterboy, on 11/30/2007, -1/+6My PocketPC has a faster CPU than that.
- xanjamanuo, on 11/30/2007, -0/+5Seriously, akkibaba. I agree. I had a computer in 1994 that was more powerful.... granted it was the size of a dryer.... but still!
- Shawn4168, on 11/30/2007, -0/+5Interesting...seems like just a couple months ago Tom's Hardware was experimenting just to see if it's even possible for a personal computer to be solar-powered. I think they got it running, and they even managed to get a monitor working off of the setup as well.
- DontGiveADamn, on 11/30/2007, -0/+5I do. And by the way, my server uses only 14 watts. It's a mini-itx and a laptop hard drive running Windows XP.
- fluxion, on 11/30/2007, -1/+5the computer is 8W, the optional monitor uses an additional 10W (official website actually says 12W).
so yah, 18-20W....
my c2d thinkpad with 2gb of ram does 18W on medium brightness according to powertop...
it's an interesting package, but not very practical
edit: well, might laptop IDLES at 18W, this computer runs full out at 18W, so that may be pretty good - inactive, on 11/30/2007, -0/+4the fact that the 200MHZ processor cant even decode a divx avi at a decent rate. it serioualy needed a 1 ghz processor even if it ment a power consumption hit.
- chad78, on 11/30/2007, -0/+4The iPod Touch runs OS X, idiot.
- molochi, on 11/30/2007, -1/+5Edit: Digg down. Comment system ate 80% of my post. I'm not retyping it.
- Baffles, on 11/30/2007, -1/+58" LCD TV (XGA 640x480 resolution) with VGA-input and remote | 1 kg | 12W Power Consumption
640x480 is XGA now? :o - mississippiman, on 11/30/2007, -0/+4http://www.norhtec.com/products/mcjr/index.html
Thats the system its based on - CoolGoose, on 11/30/2007, -1/+4Are you sure that that max. power usage isn't ONLY for the cpu ?
- Alonski, on 11/30/2007, -1/+4Wow. It looks really cool. Especially the solar panel. However I wouldn't find myself using it.
- bumcheekcity, on 11/30/2007, -1/+4£199 for an 18W PC which has 200Mhz Processor, 128MB RAM and a 2GB CF card. How on earth is anyone supposed to use that as a PC? Even with, admittedly, the low footprint of Linux, and espeically Puppy Linux, compared to Windows and other Linux Distros, you'd have to load up OpenOffice/Firefox/etc. into 128MB of RAM, which is just pitiful. Even WITHOUT the argument over the OS's footprint, an office document and a browser alone can chew up 128MB RAM all by themselves.
It couldn't really be used as an office PC, it's just too slow. I've used stripped down Linux distributions on old 400Mhz, 350Mhz machines (in fact, I used one for a whole week exclusively, as my main PC broke), and it was painful. I had the lightest programs on it, and a stripped down Linux distribution, etc. and it was painful. Of course, my main machine is a dual-core with 2GB RAM, so it's totally unfair to do an exact comparison, but a machine of this speed can't be used, regardless of what OS or programs you have on it, as an office machine.
It also can't be used as a nice little DHCP/DNS server for a house. I had thought that would be a good idea, but then the one best use for this PC I could tthink of is totally destroyed by the lack of a second Ethernet Port. So it's down to being used as a LAMP server, and as other peoplke have said before me, Laptops now can get close to, and even under 18W Power Consumption, and that can be decreased more if you can turn off the monirtors (usually by ripping out wires, not generally recommended). Underclocking and a nice low comsumption HDD will give you a wonderful office machine in the form of a laptop for pretty much the same price. This is a totally useless piece of technology. - Bmaroney, on 11/30/2007, -3/+6http://www.norhtec.com/products/mcjr/index.html Same thing but a bit cheaper and a few more options.
- simg, on 11/30/2007, -4/+7Nice, but my Dell Latitude 820D with Core 2 Duo processor and 17" LCD only uses 30 watts of power ....
(Er, my desktop system with 21" CRT, Geforce 5900XT and AMD Athlon 1800 uses 275 Watts !! :( ) - theinept, on 11/30/2007, -0/+3Your laptop will probably cream this little computer performance-wise at near-idle.
- Giblet2, on 11/30/2007, -0/+3The power adapter on most laptops is twice the laptops footprint in wattage usually. this is done so It can charge at high speeds while the laptop is running.
- geomon, on 11/30/2007, -0/+3gumstix. 400MHz=$206.50US. CPU full power consumption=0.22A.
Runs Linux, can connect wifi, bluetooth, 2GB storage (SD or CF), JTAG, audio, USB 2.0. There is more. Does robotics.
Mine draws about 1.2A with serial, audio, CF, ethernet, USB2.0 and 400 MHz while compiling a new kernel. - geomon, on 11/30/2007, -0/+35W at idle, or at 100% CPU utilization?
- molochi, on 11/30/2007, -0/+3Peak power consumption for a Dothan Pentium M (A 3 year old centrino system, right?) is 21W. On battery the cpu is supposed to run at ~7W. In fact, MY 3 year old Centrino system is (as I type this) consuming 17-18W (mobile meter) on battery and this notebook has a mRadeon 9700 in it.
- acidreflux, on 11/30/2007, -0/+3says the dude on the computer
- RoboDonut, on 11/30/2007, -0/+2I wouldn't call it a PC.
It's more like a thin client.
It could play a mean game of Nethack, though. - lowerlogic, on 11/30/2007, -0/+2still 200mhz on a small distro like Puppy Linux should be good for email, im / irc, programming, and web browsing (at least in links)
- Coldkill, on 11/30/2007, -4/+6Are you trying to be funny, cause it's not working
- coollettuce, on 11/30/2007, -0/+2No.
- cyberoidx, on 11/30/2007, -0/+2OMFG!
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