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General Discussion => Technology and Development => Other => Topic started by: Spyro543 on August 05, 2011, 01:01:38 pm

Title: Making a mini-computer
Post by: Spyro543 on August 05, 2011, 01:01:38 pm

http://anovanews.blogspot.com/2011/08/making-mini-computer.html

Many of you have seen me talking about this on IRC.
Well, I finally posted about it on my blog.

What do you guys think?

Title: Re: Making a mini-computer
Post by: Juju on August 05, 2011, 01:45:46 pm

Sounds nice :)

Title: Re: Maing a mini-computer
Post by: fb39ca4 on August 05, 2011, 01:47:31 pm

The CPU is made by TI :P What a small world.

Title: Re: Making a mini-computer
Post by: Keoni29 on August 07, 2011, 09:23:21 am

Oooh nice man. Can you play realtime games with it?

Title: Re: Making a mini-computer
Post by: LincolnB on August 07, 2011, 10:29:39 pm

Hey, when its finshed you should post step by step instructions for cheap students who want a nice computer :)

Title: Re: Making a mini-computer
Post by: fb39ca4 on August 07, 2011, 10:59:38 pm

I wonder if there is anything like it with an Atom processor, it would be more flexible in that you can use existing x86 binaries, for the purpose of having a small, cheap computer.

Title: Re: Making a mini-computer
Post by: Spyro543 on August 08, 2011, 08:42:14 am

Quote from: buttsfredkin on August 07, 2011, 10:29:39 pm

Hey, when its finshed you should post step by step instructions for cheap students who want a nice computer :)

Um it won't be cheap to make. It'll be >$200 to make.

Title: Re: Making a mini-computer
Post by: fb39ca4 on August 08, 2011, 12:23:50 pm

Yeah, I guess so. At that point, you might as well buy a $300 netbook and get better performance.

Title: Re: Making a mini-computer
Post by: LincolnB on August 08, 2011, 10:54:09 pm

yeah, I see what you mean

Title: Re: Making a mini-computer
Post by: BrownyTCat on August 09, 2011, 11:56:06 am

Wow, the BeagleBoard-xM is only 150 bucks, too. Then again I got my Pentium 4 to play TF2 with 35 dollars. I'm not sure of "laptop-like performance", since that's actually vague considering the hardware and differences in laptops today.

Title: Re: Making a mini-computer
Post by: imo_inx on August 09, 2011, 01:02:16 pm

Why don't you buy a netbook, strip it down, and use combine the parts with external parts to create a smaller computer.

Title: Re: Making a mini-computer
Post by: willrandship on August 09, 2011, 02:40:56 pm

If you want really small, go for a gumstix instead. Not as cost-effective, but so much smaller for essentially the same capabilities.

Title: Re: Making a mini-computer
Post by: Hayleia on August 10, 2011, 03:54:59 am

I don't think the aim of this is to have a computer, but to make it, like a challenge or something. Or maybe because Spyro never found any computer that pleased him, so he wants to build the "perfect" one (this is why I built my own toys).

Title: Re: Making a mini-computer
Post by: Spyro543 on August 10, 2011, 08:01:03 am

Quote from: Hayleia on August 10, 2011, 03:54:59 am

I don't think the aim of this is to have a computer, but to make it, like a challenge or something. Or maybe because Spyro never found any computer that pleased him, so he wants to build the "perfect" one (this is why I built my own toys).

Both are true.

Title: Re: Making a mini-computer
Post by: imo_inx on August 10, 2011, 11:54:40 am

Once I get my new laptop I plan on stripping down this netbook.  :hyper: *.* :w00t: :mad: :love: