I love this trend towards cheap, less-powerful computers. I would never use this as a primary machine, but it's absolutely ideal for use as a home server (web, cvs/svn, ftp, etc). You can get all sorts of more powerful machines for prices ranging from slightly (build-it-yourself, Dell) to much (Apple) higher, but what's the point? The CPU could be half as fast, and I still wouldn't be able to drive it past a few percent utilization by doing an svn commit. We'll see how it actually turns out, but judging by those specs I will get a much smaller, more attractive, cheaper, less power-hungry package that still has significantly more power than I actually need.
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I love this trend towards cheap, less-powerful computers. I would never use this as a primary machine, but it's absolutely ideal for use as a home server (web, cvs/svn, ftp, etc). You can get all sorts of more powerful machines for prices ranging from slightly (build-it-yourself, Dell) to much (Apple) higher, but what's the point? The CPU could be half as fast, and I still wouldn't be able to drive it past a few percent utilization by doing an svn commit. We'll see how it actually turns out, but judging by those specs I will get a much smaller, more attractive, cheaper, less power-hungry package that still has significantly more power than I actually need.