<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">Now that the Raspberry Pi 2 is even capable of running Windows (and promises to run Linux. XBMC etc even faster), I wonder if it might be enough for your needs.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">4xUSB</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">1xHDMI</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">1xMicroSD</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">1xRJ45 (for wired Ethernet)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">1xMicroUSB (for power)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">Wifi is usually offered by a USB dongle. Probably not much luck about a second HDMI, tho. But can't beat the price.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/raspberry-pi-2-on-sale/">http://www.raspberrypi.org/raspberry-pi-2-on-sale/</a></font><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><a href="http://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2015/02/02/windows-10-coming-to-raspberry-pi-2/">http://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2015/02/02/windows-10-coming-to-raspberry-pi-2/</a></font><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 1 March 2015 at 05:33, Herb Richter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hgr@buynet.com" target="_blank">hgr@buynet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
On 15-02-28 10:09 PM, <a href="mailto:phiscock@ee.ryerson.ca" target="_blank">phiscock@ee.ryerson.ca</a> wrote:<br>
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I'm considering the Zotac and Asus mini-pcs for the basis of a home-office<br>
system. It won't be used for gaming, just spreadsheets, word processing<br>
and internetting.<br>
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I have an ASUS VivoPC-VM40B-01 (win8.0) now -02 (win8.1) :<br>
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<a href="http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883220628" target="_blank">http://www.newegg.ca/Product/<u></u>Product.aspx?Item=<u></u>N82E16883220628</a><br>
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- runs Ubuntu 14.04 easily<br>
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I bought it originally to run the last two windows apps I need - personal<br>
and corporate tax programs - turns out I can run new versions of these with wine 1.7<br>
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I would happily buy another if I needed another desktop box.<br>
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