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The AOpen XC Cube EY855-II mini-barebones system is built around a Pentium-M motherboard, and provides an interesting alternative to Pentium 4 desktop systems. I have started paying a lot more attention to power/heat dissipation and noise levels in the past few years, and have been thinking that it might make sense to get a desktop system based on notebook hardware, but without the mechanical space constraints of a notebook form factor. The noise output from a dual P4 system with graphics accelerator is fine in a room full of computers, but these days I find even my notebook computer is loud for my taste.

Price for the barebones system is currently around $325.00 (not including CPU, memory, etc).

The EY-855-II review at TechReport.com includes a nice graphic of idle and maximum power consumption for a range of systems based on processors including Pentium 4, Athlon, and Pentium-M. Check out the 220+ watt power consumption for all of the P4 systems against the 84 watt peak consumption for the 2.0 GHz Pentium-M.

More discussion at Slashdot.

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