I'm going to forget an atom. I have a nice eeePC here and like it and likely will pick up another since I can get them for like under $150. I figure it will make a nice hot spot. Good for the light weight stuff.
But for heavy duty you're right. I can legally get Lion going. Its quite easy. Apple sold a snow leopard to a 13 yo. She can upgrade. No contracts are binding with a minor. I have no contract. Not my machine. I won't sign a contract with a 13 yo. Next when I review what needs to happen? 13 yo is editing video so I guess maybe I'm going to have to install some serious hardware. Its not my lion. I'm just told there might be a virus in it so they ask me to check it out. I'm just the sys admin. I'm low man on the totem pole. No contracts are binding for like the next 3 years. right? On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 10:44:12AM -0600, Gustin Johnson wrote: > If you are running virtual machines you pretty need a modern machine > unless you are very patient. As you are looking at small form factor, > be aware that Intel Atom based solutions do not have the hardware > support that makes VMs practical. While technically you could get > something working with para-virtualization, you really do not want to > do this. > > You also cannot run OSX Lion in a VM legally unless your host OS is > also Lion running on actual Apple hardware. There are some other > licencing constraints with OSX. > > For small form factor, look at uATX, something like this perhaps: > http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/PID-BDL_A83850_F1A75M(ME).aspx > > For even smaller and lower powered you could try something like this: > http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/PID-MX32502(ME).aspx > > Dual head is provided by most, even the integrated graphics solutions. > Triple head pretty much requires an ATI (and only models with > Eyefinity in their description). > > The multiple keyboards, mice and monitors has been done. In fact > there is a local company who does this very thing (Linux based even). > > On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:29 PM, <t...@terralogic.net> wrote: > > > > I've looked at www.vfxweb.com and see cheap mobo's for like $26 bux with a > > cpu. > > > > What would ppl suggest is a decent small form factor way to go which would > > be able to run a virtual machine and in it run say OSX lion? > > > > I'd likely want to get some other OS's running as well... > > > > Multi head is necessary. > > > > One of the CLUG people asked about setting up a server with six (6) KB's > > and six (6) mice not including the dead one in my garage and six (6) heads. > > > > I believe we can do this! Use USB mice and kb's and a couple PCI cards > > like was in the shuttle-X I brought to the meeting. Should be easy. Next > > one of our guys said we can output to a monitor via USB and I'd like to > > know how to do that! > > > > I'm not sure this makes sense because a thin client should do this as well. > > But who knows. I think the way it should work now is plug the KB, Mouse > > etc into a flat panel and plug the network in and plug the server into the > > network. Of course the network should be fiber. Fiber runs so fast that > > why do we need AGP? > > > > We should be showing this at install fests. > > > > > > > > If anyone is interested one of my buddies just put in a 128 core machine. > > > > But they like winders. Uggh. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > clug-talk mailing list > > clug-talk@clug.ca > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
