[CentOS] Alternative to laptop

H agents at meddatainc.com
Sun Jul 14 11:58:33 UTC 2019


On July 10, 2019 7:39:30 AM EDT, nux at li.nux.ro wrote:
>Another NUC alternative:
>https://www.gigabyte.com/uk/Mini-PcBarebone
>
>
>On 2019-07-10 12:14, Mike wrote:
>> https://www.asrock.com/nettop/index.asp
>> 
>> Asrock has a series of Intel and/or AMD based mini-pc's called the 
>> DeskMini.
>> Competes in the Intel NUC space.
>> Plenty of power and up-to-date components, multiple ports for dual
>> monitor and at least two ssd's, etc.
>> I don't work for Asrock or sell their equipment.
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 2:52 AM H <agents at meddatainc.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I am considering buying a small, and therefore easily portable, 
>>> computer as an alternative to the laptop I already have. Obviously
>it 
>>> would not have battery, a screen, nor a keyboard etc. but more or
>less 
>>> be an easily portable computing unit to move between offices where a
>
>>> keyboard and monitor(s) could then be connected. I want to run
>CentOS 
>>> 7, later CentOS 8.
>>> 
>>> The smaller, the better, however, there are certain key features I 
>>> would like to have:
>>> 
>>> - HDMI for 2 monitors
>>> 
>>> - USB for keyboard
>>> 
>>> - 2 extra USB for eg external harddisk etc.
>>> 
>>> - both wifi and at least Gb Ethernet cable connector
>>> 
>>> Probably at least 16 Gb of memory, capability to drive two 
>>> high-resolution monitors and whatever else might be nice such as SSD
>
>>> of at least 256 Gb.
>>> 
>>> Size wise it would be nice if it were no larger than a "book", 
>>> whatever size that might be.
>>> 
>>> Does anyone use something like the above, or know of a computer 
>>> meeting the above criteria?
>>> 
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Looks very interesting and a large selection of options. Is anyone running Centos on one of these?


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