Here is a picture of my pride & joy, the 10ZiG 6772 Thin Client scored at Goodwill along with 5 others that don't hold a candle to this.
At the moment it's running Linux mint off USB stick, and you can see there's an instant spot to plug in a PCI card, and further away a PCIE slot.
My intention is to put a USB 3 card, plug the existing USB 3 stick in, and hope to boot BIOS from PCI or something and have it work.
As-is it has 1 GB of RAM (shared with video) and hopefully tomorrow I'll take my pennies saved and order 2 x 2 GB RAM. Next step after that, get a USB 3 card and whatever it takes to have it plug in the sideways slot. Maybe a PCIE extender, maybe a riser. Thought I'd see what you think. Then plug it into a nice surge-protected/filtered outlet and never spend another cent unless it's a SATA drive or something.
This might end up being my favorite everyday computer, and it loves Pogoplugs already. It's a single-core VIA Nano U3100 1066 MHz and claims to go 1.6Ghz in turbo mode (says in the BIOS even) but I don't see any documentation how that's accomplished.
If I'm lucky I can order RAM tomorrow, but even the $12 USB 3 card might have to wait. I don't see any regular PCI cards that are USB 3.0 or I'd strongly consider it.
Thanks (to put it mildly) for your consideration :-) No really, go ahead and brainstorm because I'd just like a hair more headroom and maybe you've got a cool idea.l
At the moment it's running Linux mint off USB stick, and you can see there's an instant spot to plug in a PCI card, and further away a PCIE slot.
My intention is to put a USB 3 card, plug the existing USB 3 stick in, and hope to boot BIOS from PCI or something and have it work.
As-is it has 1 GB of RAM (shared with video) and hopefully tomorrow I'll take my pennies saved and order 2 x 2 GB RAM. Next step after that, get a USB 3 card and whatever it takes to have it plug in the sideways slot. Maybe a PCIE extender, maybe a riser. Thought I'd see what you think. Then plug it into a nice surge-protected/filtered outlet and never spend another cent unless it's a SATA drive or something.
This might end up being my favorite everyday computer, and it loves Pogoplugs already. It's a single-core VIA Nano U3100 1066 MHz and claims to go 1.6Ghz in turbo mode (says in the BIOS even) but I don't see any documentation how that's accomplished.
If I'm lucky I can order RAM tomorrow, but even the $12 USB 3 card might have to wait. I don't see any regular PCI cards that are USB 3.0 or I'd strongly consider it.
Thanks (to put it mildly) for your consideration :-) No really, go ahead and brainstorm because I'd just like a hair more headroom and maybe you've got a cool idea.l