Re: [ukha_d] Viglen MPC-L - Tiny £99 Linux PC

["Jamie Bennett" <jamie.bennett@xxxxxxxxx>]

A comment from one of the Ubuntu-UK guys website -
http://tonywhitmore.co.uk/blog/2008/08/18/viglen-mpc-l-well-worth-79/

"Ordered one last month and it arrived recently. Decided to wipe linux
off the hard drive and installed Windows 2000. After finding the
correct Video and Audio drivers managed to get it working perfectly.
However, it is VERY VERY SLOW. It's okay for browsing text based web
pages but too slow for even low resolution 'you tube' videos. I was
hoping to use it for playing DVD's through a USB DVD/CD drive but too
slow for that as well with video's stalling and breaking up. Oh well,
on the plus side, it only uses 10 Watts of electricity when working
'hard' so I can leave it running 24/7 without worrying about the
electricity bill."

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Jamie Bennett <jamie@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I started to look into these machines as a replacement for an aging
> mac mini that the kids use to browse the internet. I was put off but a
> comment that said this struggle with sites such as youtube, not quite
> what I was after. It would be nice to get a real review of these
> units, especially as they have a vesa mount and would sit nicely
> behind a monitor.
>
> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Jon Wilkins
<jonpdwilkins@xxxxxxx> wro=
te:
>> It's a shame they don't say more about its "Ultra Low energy
profile" - =
like
>> "typical" power consumption figures. The claim they make
below is quite
>> interesting:
>>
>> "it's ultra-low energy consumption profile means it only
costs around =
=A31
>> a year to run."
>> "Sounds too good to be true?"
>>
>> Yes. It does.
>>
>> Some quick fag-packet paths suggest that *if* electricity was
still 9p /=
kWh
>> ( e.g forgetting the 'higher rate' unit costs) then this thing
must cons=
ume
>> *less than 1.2w*. Of course, I'm assuming it's on 24/7... if they
only
>> expect the unit to be on 1 hr per day then I guess that allows 30w
>> consumption. I expect they mean 8hrs / day which would mean 10w
which
>> still seems pretty impressive.
>>
>> jon
>>
>> 2008/12/2 Stuart Poulton <stuart.poulton@xxxxxxx>
>>
>>> On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 11:16 +0000, Mark McCall wrote:
>>> > > We're all looking forward to your in depth review
Mark ;)
>>> >
>>> > Got right ahead Stuart, Linus is more your bag ;)
>>>
>>> If you can get viglen to send me a model to review, I'll
gladly do a
>>> review.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Stuart
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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>>
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