<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:10 AM, JWA <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jwa@macbidouille.com">jwa@macbidouille.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 08:15, Ken Mandelberg <<a href="mailto:km@mathcs.emory.edu">km@mathcs.emory.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
> In another thread it was suggested that the Mac Mini was overpriced as a<br>
> Myth frontend/backend. I want something with a similar footprint.<br>
><br>
> The atom/ion2 boxes won't do. As a backend I need firewire to get input from<br>
> a cablebox and the boxes I've seen don't have it. I also want enough cpu to<br>
> do efficient commercial marking, and the atom's are too slow.<br>
><br>
> Is there really a box with similar size to a Mac Mini that is at least a<br>
> core2/nivida and cheaper (or more powerful).<br>
<br>
</div>I'm in a similar situation, except I don't want to do commercial<br>
flagging and I just want the firewire for channel changing (IR<br>
blasting is just to unreliable). But I can't find any Atom/ION boxes<br>
with firewire or at least with a PCIe so I can buy a Firewire card. I<br>
could build my own with a Mini-ITX board (I've seen some Ion boards<br>
that have a PCIe slot), but I can't find any Mini-ITX cases that I<br>
like (meaning small, but still with a slot for the firewire card) that<br>
are less than $300, so adding it all together it'll be around the same<br>
price as the Mac mini anyway. I'd love it if there were a $300-$400<br>
nettop with ION and a firewire port, but those just don't exist.<br></blockquote><div><br>It appears there are Firewire Mini PCIe cards, but they're expensive:<br> <a href="http://www.bwi.com/prod/13006">http://www.bwi.com/prod/13006</a><br>
<br></div></div>/Brian/<br><br>