Here's what I'm doing.
Zotac IONITX-A motherboard
- Wifi
- comes with 90W Power Brick
- Dual Core Atom 330
- HDMI/VGA/DVI/Optic/SPdif
- 3xSata + 1xESata
Mini-Box M350 Case
- Super small
- Well ventilated
Can definitely do a whole system under $300, even cheaper if you go with the IONITX-C.
Then just get a couple sticks of ram, and a laptop sata hard drive and you have a box able to play 1080p videos with NVidia VDPAU and uses under 30W of power.
I own the IONITX-A and the IONITX-C, so many things you can do with it if you decide to scrap it as a server.
I'm really waiting to see what gets released for the ION based netbooks (HP Mini 311 is the only one really available right now), they would be another nice option for a little more money.
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Yeah, I love mine, 1080p works awesome with XBMC in Linux running Ubuntu 9.04. IONITX-A with the Wifi built in is nice too.
Here's what I'm doing. Zotac IONITX-A motherboard - Wifi - comes with 90W Power Brick - Dual Core Atom 330 - HDMI/VGA/DVI/Optic/SPdif - 3xSata + 1xESata Mini-Box M350 Case - Super small - Well ventilated Can definitely do a whole system under $300, even cheaper if you go with the IONITX-C. Then just get a couple sticks of ram, and a laptop sata hard drive and you have a box able to play 1080p videos with NVidia VDPAU and uses under 30W of power. I own the IONITX-A and the IONITX-C, so many things you can do with it if you decide to scrap it as a server. I'm really waiting to see what gets released for the ION based netbooks (HP Mini 311 is the only one really available right now), they would be another nice option for a little more money.