Notes to self:
ECS EZ-Buddie Barebone case, $200. Celeron 1.7 GHz CPU, $57. A 256 MB RAM stick, $44. Linksys WMP11 wireless PCI card, $50. 80 GB Maxtor HD, $83. Total is under $450, and it makes a nice quiet little wireless MP3 jukebox.
It's where I talk to myself. Gaming, politics, and links I don't want to forget about.
Notes to self:
ECS EZ-Buddie Barebone case, $200. Celeron 1.7 GHz CPU, $57. A 256 MB RAM stick, $44. Linksys WMP11 wireless PCI card, $50. 80 GB Maxtor HD, $83. Total is under $450, and it makes a nice quiet little wireless MP3 jukebox.
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That’s a neat little case, but this guy ($239, P4) wins the form-factor war in my opinion. I have the older version, the Sabre ($189, P3), and it’s fairly close to silent; I assume the new incarnation is about the same. The one downside is that if you want to stack something heavy on top of it (like a 17″ CRT), it has to be larger so that it rests on the edges, since there’s not a good support across the center. But it fits in an entertainment center a lot better than the EZ-Buddie, or the more cube-ish ones like the Shuttle.
Oh, and the other caveat is that the Sabre (and presumably the Samba) ship with whatever CD-ROM drive they were able to get out of the dumpster across the street. There’s no telling what you’ll get, but it’s guaranteed to sound like a Cessna. If you want it to be quiet and play a CD, or if you want it to play a DVD at all, you’ll probably have to invest a bit more.
Nice! I’ll have to contemplate those. This unit is going to go underneath a bed, so form factor isn’t quite as important, though.
Oh my god. You are so going to get me in trouble.
Why didn’t I realize that my bed was a server closet before?