Intel Atom: pros/cons/hazzards?

I had someone in my office today looking for a 3.5" floppy - it turns out that they are still useful. (Apparently they make excellent IR filters!)

I have about 1000 new ones in sealed boxes from my days of computer repair. They were bought for pennies on the dollar and what I used of them have already paid for all of them.

Not a size? So you can shove anything you want, into a 19" relay rack? Just because you tack a metric measurement on it, doesn't mean it isn't 19".

I think his point is that (usually) none of the actual dimensions on a

They are, with specific tolerance to make sure the equipment fits neatly between the rails and math the specified height increment. Relay racks have been around for over 100 years.

On Thu, 09 Oct 2014 23:27:01 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell" Gave us:

I cannot imagine why none of these dopes could manage to examine to friggin' wiki site.

It has the history. It also lists numerous alternate information sources.

Most of which are listed as sources for the site material.

Anyone ever stop to think that it may have been meant to declare the maximum length of a device chassis? That way, the rack cabinet designers and the system integration engineers can manage the "back of the rack" particulars better.

I have had problems with HP and their FOOL length DL 360 server chassis.

Single-core (i686....) CPU with Hyper-Threading, AFAIK. I have a Netbook with that CPU and have not met any incompatibility while using Windows XP. A friend of mine is using linux on his Atom Netbook. I guess the Atom-based systems are working quiet well with Microsoft Windows and Unix for PC's.

They have a very low power-consumption (even when on full-throttle). They are slow, compared to CPUs above 30W power consumption. A balanced i3 i5 and even i7 system gives you nearly the same idle power-consumption as an Atom, but when it throttles, you have to take care of the approximately 26W 45W and 90W thermal-dissipation, what it takes to throttle a fast i3 i5 and i7 system to full-speed...

My base machine is an Alaska C60 APU (ASUS C60M1-I). Dual-Core 1GHz AMD APU. 7W idle 11W max. Passive cooled. Slow..... but.

Precisely. A 19" rack is one specific type of rack, with a specific width and depth, and specific mounting holes. You can probably get some kind of IKEA furniture that is 19 inches wide and which would possibly even be able to hold some electronic equipment, but that wouldn't be a '19" rack'.

Stefan

On Fri, 10 Oct 2014 18:48:51 +0200, Stefan Reuther Gave us:

Specifically, with that in mind. A "19" rack" is a cabinet of various heights, but with a specific front side opening and front side rail face mounting hole configuration.

If that opening does not match or the drilled hole pattern, it cannot be called a 19" rack, because the devices meant to mount in such cabinets are what define the standard, and both have to marry.

The original equally spaced drill pattern was abandoned for the current schema.

So, it is about what industry elements mount in it that defines what one can properly call any given cabinet.

Nonsense.

The largest width dimension on the installed equipment is 19" (that's edge-to-dege on the "ears", (or across the front panel, if it has a single-piece front that bolts to the rails)

You certainly can.