Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 22nd Nov 2005 17:12 UTC
RISC OS The Inq pays attention to Advantage Six' upcoming A9 Home machine. "AdvantageSix's new machine is a tiny blue fanless aluminium box about the size of a couple of floppy drives - 168x103x53mm. The A9 Home is a sealed unit - it comes with 128MB RAM and a notebook-size 40GB hard disk - which you can't upgrade, not that you'd want to; this is masses for RISC OS. There is a small external power supply brick which puts out a stonking 20W. It has to be that much to power a few USB peripherals - the machine itself draws about 3W under load. "That's actually quite a lot. We haven't enabled most of the power management yet."
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RE[11]: Looks good
by dylansmrjones on Thu 24th Nov 2005 02:11 UTC in reply to "RE[10]: Looks good"
dylansmrjones
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2005-10-02

If you just need a webserver, XP is overkill. Besides that, I don't think you can get XP Pro Embedded to run on A9 Home ;)

But the idea of using such a small machine (equipped with a lightweight OS) as a webserver is quite interesting. But performancewise I'd stick with an OS built to be easily modified as small as you'd like it.

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