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Answer» If this company gets its way for about $100.00 U.S. you could have a mini PC in any home with a phone line... Marvell says that the SheevaPlug draws about as much power as a night LIGHT during use and still packs a 1.2GHz Sheeva ARM compatible processing core, 512MB of RAM and 512MB of flash storage. People can buy the devices in single unit quantities for $100, but Marvell says that when bought in BULK, the SheevaPlug can go for as low as about $50 per unit.Cute If it doubles as a hand grenade count me in.I wonder if you can fold on it If you could i would get like 10 of em hahahahhahaWith jump drives and other alternatives for storage I'm really having an extremely difficult time think why 95%+ of people would need such a device. In other words why would the standard consumer (e.g. your parents) need or want something like this? If anyone comes up with something please post it. I see this as sort of a file server replacement - for people who want to share files across a network, it's an ALTERNATIVE to leaving a full computer on to do it, as it takes up less space and uses less power. Only thing is, it's lacking the amount of USB and Firewire ports to make large amounts of storage viable, and it doesn't have enough Ethernet ports to make it useful as, say, a router, which I think would be a great use for this type of device.Well it does have one USB port and a USB hub I'd imagine could be connected to that to allow a lot more storage to be used VIA USB. Quote Plug computers would draw just about 5W of power, come with a 1.2-GHz CPU, a USB [2.0] port and internet connectivity. But I was looking for some type of alternatives to file SHARING. I can't imagine the market share for a low power file sharing server being that much in demand. Quote Well it does have one USB port and a USB hub I'd imagine could be connected to that to allow a lot more storage to be used VIA USB.That then, to me, defeats the object of a small file server, with cables and hubs lying around. Valid point though, a USB hub would expand the amount of ports available. Other than using it as a router, which doesn't seem workable, I can't really think of any more uses for this. Unless of course someone creates a way to use these in a cluster ... but then the cost would become a factor.Ohh your idea of a cluster gave me a good idea. Set these up as [emailprotected] servers. Although sure the CPU on these wouldn't do much good.My cluster idea was inspired by CR's comment Quote from: computeruler on February 28, 2009, 12:54:49 PM I wonder if you can fold on it If you could i would get like 10 of em hahahahhaha I don't think they'd be cost effective for folding, if [emailprotected] would even work - I don't know what actual type of processor is in these. Buying ten would be $1000 ... for that price you could buy a computer with a few graphics cards and a quad core for folding. It'd use more power, take up a little more space, but would almost certainly crunch faster IMO. I'd estimate about 100-150 points per day for these wall-warts - a pure guess, but my graphics card alone would outperform ten of these for folding.true I dunno, it seems a little too odd to be true. I mean what happens in a power surge... }BOOM{ |
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