An Admins life is hard enough » Toys for Geeks http://blog.rohrauer.at Meine Gedanken über IT und Technik Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:23:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 My first DualCore Atom http://blog.rohrauer.at/test/ http://blog.rohrauer.at/test/#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:29:32 +0000 Johannes http://blog.rohrauer.at/?p=279 I bought a new toy – the first Intel Atom-based, Dualcore Motheboard – the Intel D945GCLF2. I found this board very handy, as it allows you to run Mac OS X on it. Unlike my Dell Mini 9, which refuses to run OSX until now, the installation on this board seems to be less error-prone. Here you will find my thoughts, results, problems and more…

Before I start, just one thing: I won´t go into the spec´s, as there are other sites which have done this before. If you can speak german, I would recommend this one: Minitechnet

:: motivation ::

Initially I bought this board to run Mac OS X on it. A short, but rather interresting article (will publish the link, as soon as I find it) showed it´s capabilities to run Mac OS X. Also, the whole hardware seems to be supported, and through the 2 Cores it should be rather fast. I thought I´ll give it a try – and for roughly €75 with 2GB RAM it´s a cheap investment.

Edit: I will post some photos here later, as I have my cam in the office now.

:: Beginning ::

The box arrived some days after my purchase. It´s small, neat, and includes the most needed things (but not more – a good thing in my opinion). Installation was straight forward. I didn´t assemble it, just plugged in the power source, added an old hard disk and the RAM and the keyboard. I will install different operatin systems on it to check the speed. I´m especially interessted in the throughput of the NIC. Strange, that Intel put´s a Realtek card on their boards. I would love to see a INTEL PRO 1000 on it, but anyway. Go figure.

Operating System list:
- Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop 32bit & 64bit
- Ubuntu 9.04 Server 32bit & 64bit
- Windows XP SP3 32bit & 64 bit
- Windows 7 RTM (yes, I already have it – thanks to my TechNet subscription)
- VMware ESXi 4.0
- VMware vSphere 4.0
- Openfiler 2.3.1
- FreeNAS (latest release at the time of test – will be announced)
- Mac OS X (we will se when I find some spare time to do this awkward task)

I will try to compare the benchmarks done on those systems. Certainly, you cannot compare Linux benchmarks with Windows benchmarks, but it should give everybody interrested a good starting point.

Utilized benches:
Linux – tiobench | hardinfo | phoronix test suite | vpenis
Windows – yet to decide
Mac OS X – yet to decide
VMware – yet to decide

:: Linux ::

Ad this board utilizes the well-known Intel 945 Chipset with integrated Intel GMA 950 graphics, I expect no troubles. Every distribution should support this specs out of the box.

Installation of Ubuntu 9.04 Server 32bit using the Alternate CD was straightforward and painless. Youtube movies run smoothly (needed to install the Flash Plugin prior to this). The only issue I could see so far is the flickering of the screen. Until now, I´m not shure why it does this, but for my tests this should be no problem.

…to be continued over the weeend…

]]> http://blog.rohrauer.at/test/feed/ 3 My Dell Mini 9 http://blog.rohrauer.at/geektoy1_a_dell_mini_9/ http://blog.rohrauer.at/geektoy1_a_dell_mini_9/#comments Sun, 05 Apr 2009 18:14:57 +0000 Johannes http://blog.rohrauer.at/?p=204 Heute habe ich mir mal wieder ein kleines Spielzeug geleistet: einen Dell Inspiron Mini 9:

Dell Inspiron Mini 9

Dell Inspiron Mini 9

Nach etlichen Stunden der Recherche habe ich mich gegen das Lenovo S10e entschieden, und zwar nicht ohne Grund: Das Lenovonetbook scheint mir zwar günstiger, aber das Dell-Gerät ist lt. diversen Quellen das perfekte MacOS X Netbook. Alles funktioniert, und das ist genau, was ich suche.

Einen Mac zu besitzen hat mich immer schon gereizt, jedoch hat mich der Preis immer abgeschreckt. Jetzt ändert sich das mit den sog. “Hackintosh´s”. Sollte ich in naher Zukunft die Zeit finden, mich mit OS X genauer zu beschäftigen, werde ich hier noch eine Rubrik einrichten.

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