From: Mike '/m' 

Yup.  The OpenBSD people use them all over the place for firewalls and
routers.  Good solid piece of hardware with an very reasonable pricetag.

 /m


On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 22:24:03 -0500, "Randy"  wrote:

>Hey that's sweet; and very applicable as an appliance-type device.
>
>"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
>news:q6sea1prhepipem36o3bo7uodg4bsg9ovb{at}4ax.com...
>> On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 13:50:17 +0100, Adam 
>> wrote:
>>
>>>http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23804
>>>
>>>"PC FIRM Hush said it has started shipping its M-MCE
series of machines
>>>which use an ITXe case and support Pentium M and Celeron M mobile chips.
>>>
>>>The MCE stands for Media Centre Edition 2005, while the chipset is the
>>>i855GME. The single DDR socket supports up to 1GB of DDR200, 266 and 333
>>>memory, while the board includes 10/100 Ethernet, 5.1 audio, TV out, and
>>>six USB 2.0 ports.
>>>
>>>Hush said that two 3.5-inch or 2.5-inch hard drives will give capacities
>>>of 400GB and 120GB respectively.
>>>
>>>There are no fans in the system, and the antivibration case uses an
>>>internal 90W power supply. The machines are delivered with Win XP MCE,
>>>Works 2005, EZ Antivirus, and an infrared remote."
>>>
>>>
>>>Gosh...it sounds like a Mac of the future....
>>
>> Actually, with that nice small 90 watt power supply, I'd probably make
>> one of these my always-on firewall running OpenBSD.  Now, if I could
>> only get one without the Windows tax....
>>
>> Or I might go for this one... only 20 watts
>> http://www.soekris.com/net4801.htm
>>
>>
>> /m
>

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