boxes that might be of interest

[Molly Tournquist]

Your caution about nettops fits very neatly in a slightly bigger context; mini ITX boxes seem like a pragmatic alternative, with generally identical architecture, but in far more tweakable packaging. So alltogether they're actually a good bit differentiated from netbooks.

In that set of form factors, there's also the new cedar view atom, like AMD fusion it addresses the old atoms' graphics weakness, oddly by replacing the intel GPU with a powerVR one(?a phone/tablet chip), and as a result linux drivers are also lacking, except it's far worse and they're entirely lacking and very likely to remain so, since intel will be switching back to an in house GPU.

> From: D. Hugh Redelmeier
> Sent: 06/13/12 10:45 AM
> To: Scott Sullivan, Toronto Linux Users Group
> Subject: [TLUG]: boxes that might be of interest
> 
> Cute little PCs:
> These are kind of like netbooks without displays, but they have decent GPUs.
> Sadly, netbooks are often cheaper, sometimes even netbooks with decent GPUs.
> 
> The AMD E-350 has some strong points. Unfortunately the Linux support
> for the GPU has been a bit of a problem (possibly solved by now).
> 
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