Intel Atom on 945 chipset motherboards have arrived!
The Intel Atom on 945 chipset motherboards have arrived (thanks to my friend Max for the tip) and they’re quite affordable! $77 with shipping in stock here. This should make an awesome embedded device or home server since the power consumption is so incredibly low.
This is a 4W TDP 45nm CPU that averages under a watt idle. The only thing that disappoints me is the big honking heat sink and fan on the GPU/chipset while the CPU takes a tiny bit of space with a tiny heat sink and no fan. The chipset uses an older manufacturing process which is why it’s so relatively big compared to the tiny 45nm CPU. However, I’m pretty sure that you could remove that fan from the heat sink for the GPU/chipset especially if you don’t plan on using the GPU with 3D gaming.
George, I have a request/question (which is only related to this post, because you wrote the word "server").
Have you ever done any blog on virtualizing apps? I’ve done some reading on it, and it seems like it might be a good way to minimize the the pain of reinstalling windows/moving to a different machine.
Any shot of an entry on that or if you know of something that covers the pros and cons of doing this in a home network.
The things I"ve seen on technet all look good, but they’re also focused on enterprise networks where this clearly makes a lot of sense.
I don’t care for 1:1 virtualization for the sole purpose of abstracting the hardware. You can use something like Acronis True Image and it will migrate your system images. But I prefer building fresh images for every machine and that eases the maintenance of Windows.
For 4:1 or 40:1 virtual server consolidation, I think it’s great to virtualize 80 to 90 percent of your servers. For the few servers where performance is critical and you’re paying 10x more for the software license than the hardware, I don’t believe in virtualizing those servers.
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I’m not sure if you’re talking about the same thing as I am. I’ve always assumed that with virtualized servers, you’d have a virtual OS for each server running on a single physical server, and I think that’s what you’re referring to.
What I’m more interested in is the ability to install and configure the apps in one spot and run them on any machine.
I’m not sure if you misunderstood me, or I misunderstood your response. Assuming I misunerstood you, what is the disadvantage of using something like SoftGrid to virtualize apps?