-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 2016-11-18 at 23:39 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I was looking at things like this: MSI Cubi N-021BEU Intel N3050 Black 125 €
without ram or hard disk (2.5" SSD). It has 4 USB3 connectors.
https://www.pccomponentes.com/msi-cubi-n-021beu-intel-n3050-negro https://msi.com/Desktop/Cubi-N.html#hero-specification
According to the vendor and comments, it has no OS. According to MSI, it has W10.
I'd have to calculate what it would be adding the missing pieces: internal hard disk, perhaps a small display, keyboard... replace my external hard disk enclosures that are USB2 with others that are USB3, perhaps. The price then is nearer that of a cheap laptop.
I finally went this route :-) I got an MSI Cubi N-020BEU. It's got an Intel Braswell N 3710, 1.66GHz CPU, and comes without ram or disk. I had to add a small size SSD, a "Kingston SSDNow mS200 120GB mSATA" plus two 4 GB ram modules, "Kingston ValueRAM SO-DIMM DDR3 1600 PC3-12800" (maybe an overkill, but Linux loves RAM). The box comes with a chassis supplement that can contain a laptop rotating dust hard disk, if wanted; I will instead use full sized external hard disks, which I already posses, but via USB 3. I installed openSUSE Leap 42 without a problem, using temporarily a spare keyboard and mouse, but the final setup will be with a K400 Logitech wireless keyboard, much smaller and designed for multimedia centers, which is currently in transit. I got it cheaper due to the black Friday thing. I connected it to my "office room" small TV set, via an hdmi cable. Sound works. I tried a mkv movie, with VLC, and it played very badly, with big jumps in the video. Xine similarly bad. Both play quite well an avi file. However, kodi plays both just perfect, and kodi is what I intended to use, so I'm very happy. :-)) I just have to migrate some other services, like Apache, to run here. Probably just need to copy the configuration files. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlg6Tm4ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XTDgCgkmBT1B3qchNUFsvhNGTh7hma ahEAnjSSkH+Oj4DwFByFZHkL773Xkk4u =9sP6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----