[haiku] Re: HaikuBox (think BeBox)
- From: James Stafford <sariatv@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 21:46:24 +0100
Maybe if you're making them yourself or if buying just-announced
hardware. Older ones that are still in production generally go quite
cheap and the discontinued-yet-thousands-left-in-stock types go for
even less (perhaps £30-40 a board). Even at the £30 mark, the best you
could get off any online retailer would be a processorless, RAM-less
hairdryer motherboard. It all depends which supplier you go for.
There's a company near Oxford that sells industrial boards as well as
an in-house design and manufacture service for one-off speciality
jobs. Obviously that costs a bit more.
I could be wrong though, it can't be that hard to pick up a
motherboard with CPU and RAM for less than a few quid.
Regards,
James.
On 5/16/10, hudsonco1@xxxxxxx <hudsonco1@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> these are usually much more expensive than commercial off the shelf PC or
> motherboards.
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> - AndrewZ
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Stafford <sariatv@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Have you thought about using industrial/embedded motherboards? We're
> doing that for our project with the idea that they don't really need
> fans so cooling requirements are kept to a minimum, plus they're
> virtually bullet-proof as far as reliability is concerned. They're
> usually more cost effective too.
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> Regards,
> James.
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