[geeks] Intel Atom MB - Initial Impressions

[Lionel Peterson]

On Jun 10, 2008, at 7:28 PM, Nadine Miller <velociraptor at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On Jun 9, 2008, at 8:55 PM, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> My D945GCLF, the low-cost Atom-based MB arrived this morning, and I  
>> just threw it in a case and installed WinXP Pro on it tonight (for  
>> testing, I plan to also try Solaris, Ubuntu, and Server 2008. All  
>> 64-bit.
>
> I like these Intel boards, but they are too pricey given what they  
> are missing.

These boards are good as appliances, and low-end desktops, IMHO - not  
much more...

> I'm looking at a $48 AsRock Wolfdale 1333-D667 for a sub-$500 Mac.   
> It takes the 45nm C2Ds, and has 4 SATA headers, 1 IDE, 1 PCI-E x16,  
> 1PCI-E 1x, 2 PCI, and takes up to 4GB of RAM @ 2x2GB.

Intel has two *high end* mini-ITX MB coming down that look nice, but  
cost close to $200. They take any socket 775 CPU, including quad core  
CPUs

> With a $190 E8400, and an $80 nVidia 8600GT, RAM, and a couple of  
> SATA hard drives, there's the mid-tower Mac I wanted announced  
> instead of an iPhone 3G. :-)  It will run a vanilla kernel.

That's a machine that in no way would be considered low-end ;^)

I plan to try one of the Mac OSX discs and see about a very low-end  
mac-like machine.

> Gotta sell some more stuff so I can order it...

Good luck ;^)

Lionel