I second this, in my exprience the C3 chips performs poorly under Linux for any
"near to real time" applications. Having lots services/apps running while in
X may the system unresponsive and unusable. However, these proccessors perform
reasonably well under XP. The better option is still the Mirco-ATX with a
Celeron processor.
Dunstan
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From: Kerry Panchoo <kpanchoo@rogers.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 16:39:30 -0400
To: TTLUG@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [TTLUG] X-Post: Mini-ITX form factor PCs
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I've looked into mini-itx solutions. Mini-ITX with the Via CPUs are very <BR>
slow and not worth the effort for the price.. the Board & CPU (typically <BR>
1GHz, but cant pentium III 1GHz for performance) are more than the <BR>
cost of a Micro ATX board and Celeron 2.0GHZ CPU- you are really paying <BR>
for the small size. If you have no real requirement for a small form <BR>
factor PC dont bother with the Mini-ITX, its too expensive for the <BR>
performance.<BR>
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Kerry<BR>
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Ansar Mohammed wrote:<BR>
> for most of us in IT we like to have several computers.. running various <BR>
> OSes for various reasons..<BR>
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> The Mini-ITX form factor is an excellent solution for low power, quiet <BR>
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> Recently I got my hands on one of these PCs.. basically the size of an <BR>
> external CD ROM, with:<BR>
> 20 GB disk, USB 2.0, onboard video, sound and ethernet.. very cool..<BR>
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