I think you want an Epia system. Epia boards can have a 500Mhz - 1Ghz processor. They are usually fanless or have a very quiet fan on them. I have an Epia-800, and after changing out the fan (it died out after a few months) I've been happy with it. It makes no discernable noise from a few feet away, and best of all, it's cheap. Everything you need is built into the board. Sure it's not a benchmark winner, but its more than enough for playing DVDs and older games like half-life and quake3. The new boards feature DDR RAM and better onboard graphics. Mini-itx.com has more info on them.
Yeah, I tried playing Strawberryfire by The Apples. Unfortunately, I only had a 486SX running at 33Mhz, so I couldn't play the thing at full speed unless I used mpg123 to convert it to wav, and then play the wav file. Now my 1.5Ghz Pentium III has no problem playing episodes of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex while downloading the original score at 400KB/sec. (yay for cable modems!)
Speak for yourself, I for one do not have a petrified Natalie Portman fetish. Although if the headline was "Scientists Create Supersolid Human in Soviet Russia" I'd have yet another tired joke to beat.
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I think you want an Epia system. Epia boards can have a 500Mhz - 1Ghz processor. They are usually fanless or have a very quiet fan on them. I have an Epia-800, and after changing out the fan (it died out after a few months) I've been happy with it. It makes no discernable noise from a few feet away, and best of all, it's cheap. Everything you need is built into the board. Sure it's not a benchmark winner, but its more than enough for playing DVDs and older games like half-life and quake3. The new boards feature DDR RAM and better onboard graphics. Mini-itx.com has more info on them.
Why would you still be running a 33Mhz 486 in 1999?
Because I didn't have the money for a faster computer.
Now you know my secret! I am a terrorist, and this is an ancient terrorist burial training camp.
Yeah, I tried playing Strawberryfire by The Apples. Unfortunately, I only had a 486SX running at 33Mhz, so I couldn't play the thing at full speed unless I used mpg123 to convert it to wav, and then play the wav file. Now my 1.5Ghz Pentium III has no problem playing episodes of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex while downloading the original score at 400KB/sec. (yay for cable modems!)
Doh! That should read "Supersolid HELIUM" not "Human." Your tiredness has infected me!
Kind of a nice idea though...
Speak for yourself, I for one do not have a petrified Natalie Portman fetish. Although if the headline was "Scientists Create Supersolid Human in Soviet Russia" I'd have yet another tired joke to beat.
Why not use Ogg Vorbis?
For the same reason no one uses Betamax: no uses Betamax.
Is this why nobody replies to my /. posts?
No, but have you considered showering more often?
I watched the thing on C-SPAN and the guy said that we would use the russian soyuz capsules during the interim.