Foxconn Nettop PC & 60GB SSD for $163 Shipped

There's also the Intel version Foxconn nT535-0h0w-B-A-NA Intel NM10 1 x 204Pin Intel GMA 3150 Mini / Booksize Barebone System, with the same price and same SSD offer.

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ljderm said:   This is going to sound pretty silly to you Techie types, but could you install Win 98 on a SSD machine like this? I do of course have the full version disk.
SSD won't be a problem but you probably won't find drivers for network controllers, video, audio and other devices.

zSandman said:   ljderm said:   This is going to sound pretty silly to you Techie types, but could you install Win 98 on a SSD machine like this? I do of course have the full version disk.
SSD won't be a problem but you probably won't find drivers for network controllers, video, audio and other devices.

Also no trim with 98 and it will not align the partitions correctly either so performance will suffer.

secstate said:   ...Also no trim with 98 and it will not align the partitions correctly either so performance will suffer.

Trim is a little overrated. I have machines running w/o trim that are fine.

Partition alignment is important, but that can easily (ok, not real easily) be done manually.

SteveG

which one is the best to run XBMC (for media center use only)??? Newegg has a bunch of this deal... any suggestion?

sgogo said:   ljderm said:   This is going to sound pretty silly to you Techie types, but could you install Win 98 on a SSD machine like this? I do of course have the full version disk.
...I still have one machine with win 98 that I use as a file server and, although it is stable and very fast, there are no drivers made for it anymore. Also, it will not run most newer programs.
SteveG

A couple of the most popular uses for old Win98 boxes are file servers (Win98 is "limited" to 256 connections vs XP,Vista,7's 10 connections) and telephony apps (voicemail, fax servers, etc). I run across them more often than not.

Personally, I'd just install one of the various Linux servers (like SME Server which is super easy to use).

BigWhy said:   which one is the best to run XBMC (for media center use only)??? Newegg has a bunch of this deal... any suggestion?
That comes down to what content you are going to try to play with it. 720p should be no problem with any of these.

KayK said:   ljderm said:   This is going to sound pretty silly to you Techie types, but could you install Win 98 on a SSD machine like this? I do of course have the full version disk.This begs the question.. why on earth would you want to install windows 98?

I have one old program that will not run on Win XP or later. Keeping the Win 98 machine as a file server for that program and the software that runs it. Other XP computers can process the data that are networked to the 98 machine, but when that HD fails, and it surely will, I want something to use again. Granted I could get an old IDE HD, but was looking for another newer option. Speed is not the issue.

Thanks for the comments.

Is there an operating system on it? It doesn't say anything in product description

How much RAM does it come with?

What an awful product description. It says so little.

No memory comes with it. It's a barebone. You have to buy RAM and HDD.

I bought one 6 month ago (AMD E350, 2GB RAM, 320GB HDD).

720p => check.
1080p =>80% OK(CPU pushed to 90%).
Netflix => Can't steam HD (Not hardware's fault, Netflix don't support DXVA)
Firefox, chrome...etc. =>A little slow.
Heat? => 75C-85C => very hot...
Gaming=> no....but I am able to play League of Legends at 15-20 FPS.

You can add ram up to 8GB but it's pointless on this min-pc. SSD can help a litte but the bottle neck is CPU.

WIN7 Index
CPU 3.8 RAM 5.6 Aero 4.0 Gaming 5.4 HDD 5.9

I sold my build on the CL (Lost about $15) then switch to a new build (i3 2120T, 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD + 1TB HDD).

I have an existing HTPC running Win7 Media Center, Silicon Dust HDHomeRun. I need another something in another room to get live TV (via wifi/hdhomerun) and watch recorded shows from the existing living room HTPC (via wifi/Win7 media sharing/homegroups). Does this pack enough punch to be able to do that?

The Free SSD has $10 rebate going on, Can we avail that as well?

lyeinyoureye said:   ljderm said:   I have one old program that will not run on Win XP or later. Keeping the Win 98 machine as a file server for that program and the software that runs it. Other XP computers can process the data that are networked to the 98 machine, but when that HD fails, and it surely will, I want something to use again. Granted I could get an old IDE HD, but was looking for another newer option. Speed is not the issue.

Thanks for the comments.
Grab an IDE to SATA converter and use something like DD to copy over everything so you don't have to worry about a failure, at least not in the "I have to replace my computer" sense. You could also try a virtual machine as was mentioned, but it depends on what that program does and may not work depending on the circumstances.

Sadly, my computer was forced restart (I hate MS!!!) during a D-to-D copy. Almost lose a 2T HDD...

papajoker said:   wkentw said:   I have an existing HTPC running Win7 Media Center, Silicon Dust HDHomeRun. I need another something in another room to get live TV (via wifi/hdhomerun) and watch recorded shows from the existing living room HTPC (via wifi/Win7 media sharing/homegroups). Does this pack enough punch to be able to do that?

According to Silicon Dust's website, E & Atom have both got reports about not capable for decoding.

However, it also said CPU with 2 cores or more and with hardware acceleration should be OK.

Even my 8 years old Dell Dimension played HD videos. So I'll give it a chance.

E-350's GPU should be able to... just not the CPU portion alone. I have one of these, never had a problem watching HD video on it.

I heard you have to grease the CPU once every 6 months on win 98. Perhaps other techies can confirm this.

sgogo said:   secstate said:   ...Also no trim with 98 and it will not align the partitions correctly either so performance will suffer.

Trim is a little overrated. I have machines running w/o trim that are fine.

Partition alignment is important, but that can easily (ok, not real easily) be done manually.

SteveG

The AMD version only supports 4 GB maximum memory and the atom supports for 4gb gigabytes as well. The AMD Nettop gives you USB 3.0 slots the other one does not. I choose the amd. I hope that xbmcbuntu xbmc(live) will use hardware acceleration.

mvpatel said:   Would this be a good computer for my medical office...staff just need basic internet, some scanning and minimal document management?
you want the proliant microserver - ecc memory - ability to use p400/p410 real raid controllers - hot pluggable drives (with p400/p410) - esxi 5 and hyper-v compatible.

This is a great deal but you don't need video and want to run 8-16GB of ECC ram and you could run a small office (everything) off one server under 75 watts.

not bad for a htpc but how is it going to handle h.265 in a year or so?

asuka said:   papajoker said:   wkentw said:   I have an existing HTPC running Win7 Media Center, Silicon Dust HDHomeRun. I need another something in another room to get live TV (via wifi/hdhomerun) and watch recorded shows from the existing living room HTPC (via wifi/Win7 media sharing/homegroups). Does this pack enough punch to be able to do that?

According to Silicon Dust's website, E & Atom have both got reports about not capable for decoding.

However, it also said CPU with 2 cores or more and with hardware acceleration should be OK.

Even my 8 years old Dell Dimension played HD videos. So I'll give it a chance.

E-350's GPU should be able to... just not the CPU portion alone. I have one of these, never had a problem watching HD video on it.

Does anyone have real world experience about video performance, conparing this one (AMD + Raedon) and AcerRevo (Atom + ION)? Thanks.