[GTALUG] Mini PC for Home Office?

[Evan Leibovitch]

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.

4xUSB
1xHDMI
1xMicroSD
1xRJ45 (for wired Ethernet)
1xMicroUSB (for power)

Wifi is usually offered by a USB dongle. Probably not much luck about a
second HDMI, tho. But can't beat the price.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/raspberry-pi-2-on-sale/
http://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2015/02/02/windows-10-coming-to-raspberry-pi-2/

On 1 March 2015 at 05:33, Herb Richter <hgr at buynet.com> wrote:

>
> On 15-02-28 10:09 PM, phiscock at ee.ryerson.ca wrote:
>
>> I'm considering the Zotac and Asus mini-pcs for the basis of a home-office
>> system. It won't be used for gaming, just spreadsheets, word processing
>> and internetting.
>>
> I have an ASUS VivoPC-VM40B-01 (win8.0) now -02 (win8.1) :
>
>     http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883220628
>
> - runs Ubuntu 14.04 easily
>
> I bought it originally to run the last two windows apps I need - personal
> and corporate tax programs - turns out I can run new versions of these
> with wine 1.7
>
> I would happily buy another if I needed another desktop box.
>
>
>
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