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> well, we already knew that there is one place (neutron) sellingthem
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> for around 100 bucks, which is somewhat excessive. the MSI versionis
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> going for ~40, but that was only on russian and czech sites so far.reference
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\n> these are straightforward implementations of a very simple
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> design, there's no reason to be so expensive (other than lowdemand...)
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> just about any ATI-based card will have "linux" support, that is,is
\n> actual xfree86 drivers. but for simple bios/console use, even that
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> not necessary.Even though minipci resembles pci, it's good to know that it's been
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> couple concerns: my guess would be that the tos and esmith imagesdo
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> not install xfree by default, takes up too much space esp. on ainstalled,
\n> machine not meant to have graphics support. and even with X
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> 4mb or 8mb of video memory is not going to make an ultra-usableActually, 8mb should be plenty unless you're looking to turn this
\n> desktop out of it.
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