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pogsnet |
Free coke?
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Wrakkenruan |
Why in the world are there two (what I assume are) serial ports in this day and age? No Fire Wire or ESATA?
Otherwise looks pretty cool. Would love to see some benchmarks (hint). -Martin <>< [edit - d'oh - beat to the punch (see #1) because somebody came into the office to chat before I got to post...] |
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UberGerbil |
You know if you'd like to skip the dual RS-232 ports (and get dual ethernet instead) MSI already sells this:
http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=Prime_CX700D&cl... |
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UberGerbil |
This is perfect for Point of Sale systems. The processor, RAM, and HD are plenty, and should run cool and quiet. Two serial ports, perfect (one for the receipt printer, one for the LCD price display-on-a-stick, or alternatively for some of the older touchscreens that still use RS-232). It would be nice to get it w/o the optical drive and a save a few bucks, but that's not a biggie.
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eitje |
this is a fancy wrapper around their existing industrial boards, i think.
edit: yep - http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=Fuzzy_CN700&cla... |
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ludi |
90% of wowie-yowie. The missing 10% is the fact that the optical drive uses a tray and a flip-down door instead of a slot-loader.
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#16, or a pop-top.
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gerryg |
RS-232 has for a long time been the standard for connecting to microcontrollers and other electronics. There's so much old stuff out there using RS-232, and enough new stuff, that it was a smart move on their part. Let Less interesting to the consumer, but for hobby or commercial use very interesting.
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[SDG]Mantis |
Of course USB to RS-232 converters also work pretty good if you really need that connectivity. I would expect that relatively few consumers would not have preferred more USB ports instead. It almost makes me wonder if this was a box originally built for a specific application where they would be needed that someone thought would make a good general release.
The Mac mini's Core2Duo runs circles around the C7 in terms of performance...but the 1GB RAM, 120 GB HDD, DVD-RW Mac mini also cost about $800. That's a huge cost difference. |
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Fighthouse |
Why is MSI getting this press for creating one PC that is almost identical to other ones already in the SFF market? This isn't anything new...
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mac_h8r1 |
That's all well and good, but I would think MSI would be smart enough to swap those RS-232 ports for a pair of eSATA ports. This little bugger SCREAMS home/media server.
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