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| DATE | 2016-04-08 |
| FROM | Rick Moen
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout-NYLXS] Fanless Desktop Solutions
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Quoting Ruben Safir (ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com):
> http://airtop-pc.com/airtop/airtop-models/airtop-w/
As with other CompuLab units, it's excellent, but also priced
accordingly.
The Nvidia graphics is suboptimal for open source. (There's that Intel
Iris Pro Graphics 6300 as integrated GPU, too.) And I figure the
Realtek sound chip is pretty cruddy, because Realtek generally is.
I note that both of the GigE ports are Intel (I218 and I210), which is
probably good news. Better than Realtek, anyway.
They say Linux Mint support. Sure, but it's important to know that
support doesn't necessarily mean _good_ support (and not necessarily
open source drivers). To know more, one would have to research not only
the existence, but the adequacy, of Linux open source support for the
chips in use that one intends to actually use.
(For example, on the CompuLab Intense PC I'm using as my next-generation
home server, I'm ignoring the GPU, which isn't that open source friendly
but fortunately irrelevant to a server, and ignoring LAN port #2, which
is Realtek and has dodgy Linux support.)
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