On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Dave McGuire wrote:
On Jan 19, 2010, at 8:40 AM, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
Now that Apple is also x86, there are no more
interesting home computers,
just variations on a theme with the same basic internals.
True. But there are plenty of good ones still available used.
Lacking that...a decent small Sun machine with a bunch of Sun Ray terminals
makes for a good central computer for home use. They don't do streaming
(steaming?) video all that well, but they will soon (they're getting better
in that area).
USB peripherals work...cameras, printers, thumb drives, some PDAs, etc.
Sound works. They're tiny and silent. This makes them perfect for home
applications. A decent 1U or 2U machine to act as a server can be had for a
few hundred bucks at most.
What bugs me about those Sun Rays is that Sun nickles and dimes you to
death on the licenses and such. I'm looking at a thin client solution for
my employer and so far Sun Rays don't look very good from that
perspective.
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cs.csubak.edu
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