Subject: Re: my own mini-pc experience...
From: FeLoNiouS MoNK (codered@gci.net)
Date: Sun Feb 24 2002 - 20:39:38 AKST
hmm .. how much?
TFM!
---I will never admit i own a winblowz machine.. i just say i have a Couple
of NIX boxes and an OTHER!---THa_FeLoNiouS_MoNK
----- Original Message -----
From: "Clay Scott" <mcfeelie@pobox.alaska.net>
To: <aklug@aklug.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 7:24 PM
Subject: my own mini-pc experience...
>
> i figured with all of the talk about mini-pcs on the list recently, i'd
> contribute my own experiences with the matter.
>
> a friend of my family expressed an interest in having me buy or build
> her a computer about a year ago. off and on since then i've kept an eye
> out for the most power while maintaining a small price tag. she lives a
> very minimalist life and anyone who's been in here rather large
> townhouse can tell. the whole place consists of a few pieces of other
> furniture and a tv. this set me into looking for a computer as small as
> i could get.
>
> after doing research on mini-pcs i settled on the shuttle spacewalker
> sv24 mini-pc. this system has a flex-atx motherboard with integrated
> ethernet, audio and savage4 video, one 5.25" and one 3.5" bay. i
> couldn't find a review or message board thread stating whether it
> supported higher than a pIII 1ghz chip, so i decided to go with that
> rather than push it.
>
> the system as i assembled it is as follows:
>
> shuttle sv24 mini barebones [ www.shuttleonline.com/sv24.html ]
> 1ghz pIII
> 256mb ram
> 40gb western digital ata100 hard drive
> 16x atapi dvd/cdrom
> ibm keyboard/usb optical mouse
> kds 15" radius rad-5x lcd monitor
>
> the system does have one pci slot. some people use it for pci 3d cards
> for easily portable lan party cases. i was planning on putting an
> internal 56k modem in it, but decided to leave it empty and gave her one
> of my old external 56k modems (this allowed for a lot more room in the
> case).
>
> installation:
>
> i went with win98 se since it's the latest non-nt windows cd i have
> access to. i expected this to take me all weekend since i've had many a
> trouble with windows and integrated hardware. gladly i actually didn't
> run into any trouble except for having to run back to my place 5 times
> because i kept forgetting things. booted from a boot floppy, fdisked the
> drive, formatted and installed win98. using the supplied shuttle
> mainboard cd all the integrated hardware worked with no problems. had
> the thing up and running in the standard windows "few hours". it's very
> quiet and after running over saturday night, was running quite cool.
>
> also, these are very linux friendly. all the integrated peripherals have
> working drivers. the only problem that you'll have is with running x4
> with the savage4 video. drivers for that are available at
> http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html
> there's also a switching utility at the above url that says will
> activate the s-video/tv out, but i can't say it works for sure.
>
> this system is really quite impressive. she's already given me
> permission to take it to a lug meeting if anyone wants any hands on
> experience with one of these. just let me know if so and when and where.
> the whole system will fit in my backpack.
>
> ~clay
>
>
>
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