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

[Tony Godshall]

If going x86, also consider the Lenovo Q180/Q190.

$220 on Amazon, easy to blow away Windows (tell the bios enable CSM,
legacy only)

But no obvious way to add ethernet except USB.

I've got about 50 of these buggers deployed as workstations.  Much
more reliable so far than the Zino HDs and the Zotac AD02 and AD10s
I'd been buying before them.

Some guys in the forums say they eat 17 watts- haven't measured
myself.  Not fanless, but people say they run pretty quiet if you keep
the fan to 40% pwm.


On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 5:36 AM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
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