[ALUG] What I've decided to buy as a low power system

[Tim Green]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 12:51 AM, Wayne Stallwood
<ALUGlist at digimatic.co.uk> wrote:
> On a vaguely related note (it is a small machine) I can recommend the
>  Lenovo thinkcentre A61e USFF machines Ebuyer are peddling out for silly
>  money at the moment.
>
>  The powerbrick is only rated at 120W or so, I'd imagine they are pretty
>  efficient and seem really quiet when running. The CPU is the new BE low
>  power range (45W from memory, the 2GHz Via is about 20, but at idle
>  there will be a smaller difference) so overall this probably isn't
>  significantly any worse on power consumption than Via based machines.
>
>  Dual core AMD, 1GB RAM, 160GB HDD, DVR-RW in a mini-itx like format for
>  £195+VAT, pretty much zero expansion possibilities beyond what you can
>  plug into USB and of course they are pre-installed with XP. But if you
>  are looking for a small and quiet machine then certainly worth a look.

Wow, that is cheap and low power - just what I need to replace the
home fileserver and web cache proxy. The next most important question
is: How quiet is it?

Tim.