From: Justin Mason (jm@jmason.org)
Date: Fri Jan 12 2001 - 04:23:16 PST
Steve Dossick said:
> Interesting to see that size or power can be had for similar amounts of
> $$. We just built some 1ghz athlon linux boxes (512mb ram, 45gb disk,
> etc.) for around $1500 apiece by purchasing the parts and assembling
> ourselves...yes, this was in the pre-funding days of yesteryear :)
It should be cheaper, too! Is this an end-user price?
It's a SBC (single board computer); some of these come with roughly that
form factor, with built-in sound, video, 10BaseT ethernet, USB, parallel,
serial, kbd/mouse, and the (trade-only) price is under $600 (I'd reckon;
probably depends on volume as well though).
So the additional hardware they have is just the laptop form-factor hard
disk, PCMCIA and IRDA, which should not make up roughly $700 worth!
I guess there'd be a markup for end-users though as you'd probably have to
buy through a distributor -- but that price still seems high...
maybe the volume factor is what's pushing it up?
--j.
> Rohit Khare wrote:
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> >
> > Size:
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> > Width: 10.9cm (4.3")
> > Height: 17.2cm (6.8")
> > Depth: 14.7cm (5.8")
> >
> > Weight:
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> >
> > Built-in Ports:
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> > * 1x Parallel Port
> > * 1x Serial Port
> > * 2x USB Port
> > * 2x PCMCIA Expansion Slots
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> > * Multimedia: Headphone, Line In, Mic
> > * 1x IRDA Infra-red Port
> > * Soundblaster-compatible sound
> >
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> >
> > Controller
> > MediaGXm CPU, 200MHz
> > 64MB SDRAM
> >
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> >
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