19 Jan
2010
19 Jan
'10
4:31 p.m.
On Jan 19, 2010, at 8:40 AM, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
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.
-Dave