Intel's first 'open-source PC' on sale for $199

Re:Intel's first 'open-source PC' on sale for $199 by jjindev on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @11:35AM (#6134476)

It's interesting, just yesterday I scanned the low cost system boards looking for one with SATA. I was wondering if I should replace the old PCs I use as filestores with something smaller, lower power, that could just run linux and rsync for me.

This does it ... but as others have said, the price is not really attractive compared to a used pc. I don't fault the design team for this. It looks like a great little board ... but probably for strategic reasons Intel would rather have us continue with those old pcs, rather than risk cannibalization of low-end pcs.

Update: I think I was slow to see the embedded focus of this board and it's IO. So of course it is priced against that world, and not the world of low-end or used PCs.

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Re:Intel's first 'open-source PC' on sale for $199 by joshu on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @12:03PM (#6134714)

http://www.bigboardlist.com/ (note that this is my project)

Cubieboard and Wandboard Quad both have SATA.

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Re:Intel's first 'open-source PC' on sale for $199 by jjindev on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @12:06PM (#6134738)

Excellent, thank you.

FWIW also, comparing that $200 pricepoint, Newegg recently had a Lenovo server Intel Core i3-3220 3.3GH Dual-Core; 4GB RAM; DVD ROM, no-disk, no-os, for $250. (reputed backdoor at no extra cost!)

Update: I just went to techbargains and searched "server", that one was recently expired. When I'm in shopping mode I just keep an eye on a couple such shopping sites to see what comes by.

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Re:Intel's first 'open-source PC' on sale for $199 by joshu on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @12:18PM (#6134845)

Please add links for that!

I'm actually thinking of building a hadoop cluster at home so something cheap would be nice.

Foxconn has cheapo machines on newegg as well.

A while ago I bought a Fujitsu P180 and it was a lot of machine for the price but the prices went way up.

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Re:Intel's first 'open-source PC' on sale for $199 by voltagex_ on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @07:06PM (#6137415)

I think the Cubieboard is OK on this but: Which boards are speed limited by using USB internally? (I'm thinking of my Dreamplug, mainly)

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Re:Intel's first 'open-source PC' on sale for $199 by rjsw on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @02:28PM (#6135851)

Not a standalone board but I have been very happy with an HP MicroServer.

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