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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">Charles,</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">Please see below:<BR></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">----- Original Message ----<BR>From: Charles Wyble <charles@thewybles.com><BR>To: SGVLUG Discussion List. <sgvlug@sgvlug.net><BR>Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 9:55:59 AM<BR>Subject: Re: [SGVLUG] Idea for New PC<BR><BR>Arthur Baldwin wrote:<BR>><BR>> Thanks Charles for the links you sent me, but the processors are too <BR>> slow for each of these products. <BR>><BR><BR>Sure. I figured that would be a point of contention. My question is how <BR>much computing power is really required? You really need a core2duo? <BR>That's a LOT of CPU power. Also 4 gigs of RAM seems very high. I think a <BR>1ghz geode and 2 gigs of RAM would be adequate for many many uses, <BR>especially the ones you outlined.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Perhaps 2 GB of RAM would be enough, but I'm not so sure about a Geode. For starters, I did some testing on Geode based products and noticed an overheating problem. Admittedly, this was a few years ago. And how well supported is the Geode as far as Ubuntu Desktop goes? <BR><BR>> As far as the price is concerned, $400 would be the absolute maximum <BR>> wholesale cost. I think this is quite possible for a Taiwanese mfg.<BR>><BR><BR>Possibly. What would the minimum order be?<BR></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Assuming testing was complete...at least 1000</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Arthur<BR>-- <BR>Charles Wyble (818) 280 - 7059<BR><A href="http://charlesnw.blogspot.com/" target=_blank>http://charlesnw.blogspot.com</A><BR>CTO Known Element Enterprises / SoCal WiFI project<BR><BR></DIV></div><br>
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