[conspire] Quiet, Freedom-compatible NAT/firewall/misc box?

[Rick Moen]

I wrote:

> Here, finally, is a series of fanless mini-PCs based on the AMD E1
> Micro-6200T 'Mullins' SoC, including one with two LAN ports:  
> http://www.fit-pc.com/web/products/fitlet/fitlet-i/
> Looks like variants based on the higher-end A10-6700T SoC can now also
> be ordered.

That particular Fitlet variant, the one based on the best 'Mullins' SoC, the
quad-core AMD A10-Micro 6700T, went out of stock quickly after it
became available, but I'm sure they'll restock pretty soon.  Meanwhile,
specs are interesting:
http://www.fit-pc.com/web/products/specifications/?model%5B%5D=FITLET-GI-C67-WACB
Notice that they claim _total_ system power consumption (not just TDP of
the SoC chip) is 4.5W-10.5W.  Impliedly, that includes an SODIMM stick
and an SSD.  RAM expansion is limited to 8GB, presumably on account of
the SODIMM support circuitry they've chosen.  The SoC has no such
limitation.

But RAM limitation aside, this is a very powerful machine for such a
paltry amount of power consumption.  And naturally, this is way more
computer than a SOHO router requires, but, then, the nice thing about
having gobs of spare CPU power (and preferably also RAM) avaoilable in
an otherwise modest little machine is the other possibilities that it
implicitly opens.