- Intel Atom N270
- 1GB DDR2
- 160GB HDD
- Linux EZOS
- No Screen
- Intel GMA 950
Nice little Linux server
02/08/2009
This review is from: ASUS Desktop PC Eee Box EBXB202-WHT-E0002 Intel Atom N270 1GB DDR2 160GB HDD Intel GMA 950 Linux EZOS
Pros:
Nice small design, great for a development Linux server. It's dual core and upgradable to 2g, plenty for what I need. The hard drive is plenty big and gigabit ethernet is great. With all it comes with, the price is great. This is the ultimate throwaway Linux server.
It Comes with a recovery disc incase you mess up your custom install too. I read a comment where it didn't but it does.
Cons:
Comes with 2x512mb chips so you have to buy 2x1g chips to upgrade it to maximum memory.
Front door is a little flimsy.
Side panel is a bear to get off.
The Linux distro that comes with it is terrible.
Keyboard has a strange layout on the right side of it and the mouse is small like a laptop mouse.
For me, none of these issues mattered (except maybe the front panel) because I'm using it as a headless Linux box.
Overall Review:
I got this last week and installed CentOS 5.2 on it. Redhat EL 4.0 wouldn't recognize the network card and I got tired of banging my head against the wall trying to get the downloaded driver to work. It's sitting by itself with a network cable and power cord plugged into it, quiet as a clam running a development server for me. I'm totally thrilled.
I was thinking of getting another one to see how Windows 2003 Server ran on it. 2g of ram is plenty for most OS (well before Vista was unleashed on the world).
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- Joseph D.
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