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    I have had good luck with fanless Zotac "NUC"-likes recently eg.<br>
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    Tough to beat the price with dual gigabit, wifi, BT, USB-C and HDMI.<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/03/2018 12:19 PM, Khalid
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        <div>Thanks.<br>
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        Those are nice. The one with the case has an onboard CPU (or so
        it seems), so needs RAM and disk. The other one does not see to
        include a CPU. It is always vague with these listings on eBay,
        isn't it?<br>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 12:07 PM, Ron
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                solutions(from China, so ship time will be a while) for
                the mobo(sans ssd/ram) and a kitted solution(again,
                without ssd/ram) based on the Intel Celeron J1900 SOC --</div>
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href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/2017-New-4-LAN-J1900-Mini-ITX-Fanless-motherboard-Q1900G4-M/263105808367"
                  target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.ebay.com/itm/2017-<wbr>New-4-LAN-J1900-Mini-ITX-<wbr>Fanless-motherboard-Q1900G4-M/<wbr>263105808367</a></div>
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                  target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.ebay.com/itm/<wbr>Fanless-Mini-Computer-<wbr>Barebone-2-Gigabit-Nic-4-USB-<wbr>VGA-HD-COM-Intel-J1900-Nettop/<wbr>162546020408</a></div>
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                    <div>Thanks,<br>
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                      <div dir="ltr">It should, but I am evaluating the
                        alternatives before committing to an RPi 3.<br>
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                            <div dir="ltr">While I can't say that I
                              understand the requirements, but would a
                              $50 Raspberry Pi do the trick?
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                                    2018 at 11:43, Ron Singh <span
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                                          just had a thought and hammer
                                          the idea of a laptop a bit
                                          more:-)</div>
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                                          style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">See,
                                          Reality Bytes in Elmira has
                                          some X220T tablets for less
                                          than 200 bucks/i5/4G/320G hdd)
                                          and I think one of these
                                          mounted on a wall will afford
                                          a touchscreen interface to
                                          quickly look at stats and will
                                          not take up too much space,
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                                          style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">As
                                          a reseller, they do the grade
                                          "B" X220T to my form for some
                                          $160, so I think the retail is
                                          around $190-$200.</div>
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                                          style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">A
                                          headless solution, tucked away
                                          would be the best and very
                                          clean, but man, the $$$ is
                                          significant.</div>
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                                          style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Perhaps
                                          some old Intel NUC based on an
                                          older i3 or i5 would be
                                          perfect too if you can find
                                          one cheap o Kijiji or Ebay.</div>
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                                          style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I
                                          haven't looked at NUCs in
                                          quite a while with mostly the
                                          Atom-based units being
                                          fanless, Mebbe the i3-32xx
                                          boards can be had fanless too.</div>
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                                          style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">A
                                          few years back we did some DFI
                                          mini-ITX boards with i5-520M
                                          as packet sniffing appliances
                                          for a local client and those
                                          boards had 4 NICs, watchdog,
                                          wireless, but no GPIO. Seems
                                          like anything fanless and with
                                          GPIO becomes "industrial use"
                                          with an "industrial" price
                                          attached:-(<br>
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