RE: [microsound] mini PCs for installations

[Michael North <michael.north@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A nice little box


http://voodoopc.com/showroom.aspx?ProductID=1088

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//*From: Malte Steiner [mailto:steiner@xxxxxxxxxx]
//*Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 1:12 PM
//*To: microsound
//*Subject: Re: [microsound] mini PCs for installations
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//*Hi,
//*
//*I use Shuttle SN41G2 boxes for installations but seems that they dont
//*make them anymore. They come with Nvidia Graphics onboard with dual head
//*  and it worked great even for my interactive realtime video and 3D
//*installations. They got the NForce chipset for Athlons cpus. Sound can
//*be 5.1 and there are ways to get it running multichannel under Linux,
//*stereo is no problem at all. Currently I run Ubuntu on them with a
//*lightwight Windowsmanager, usually XFCE but guess I will go even lower
//*with Blackbox because in the white cube situation it should just run the
//*installation and don't need blinkblinkglitz userexperience enhancers
//*which just eat up cpu cycles.
//*But I don't know which are the successors of it. All current offers I
//*can see are rather expensive and makes a Mac Mini attractive. Also I
//*heard that their quality declined.
//*
//*VIA looks interesting but take care, their cpus usually are bad at
//*floating point operations so they could have problems with realtime
//*multimedia stuff and don't scale so well under load. There is a special
//*Linux destribution out for their boards:
//*http://www.epios.net/
//*
//*Would like to hear more about VIA, too.
//*
//*Cheers,
//*
//*Malte
//*
//*--
//*Malte Steiner
//*media art + development
//*-www.block4.com-
//*
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