[geeks] Netra X1

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Wed Apr 3 15:40:04 CST 2002


On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 04:32:54PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On April 3, Big Endian wrote:
> > I needed a box to do a single purpose MySQL database.  (looking up 
> > zip+4 from address).  Needed it on the cheap and so we bought an X1. 
> > I must say *DAMN* that thing is nice.  The IDE performance issues 
> > that the U5/10 had are non existant.  I was expecting something quick 
> > and dirty, but I'm impressed.  These things *STOMP* the entry level 
> > Dell boxes we have.  Does anybody know how well these are selling?
> 
>   I've got two of those running my video stuff.  They work very, very
> well and are quite zippy.  I have no idea how well they're selling,
> though.  At $1K/ea with online purchasing, I'd imagine they'd sell
> pretty well, if they've done any advertising at all.

What are you using to get video into those machines?  USB devices or a PCI
capture card?

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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