<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>I think there are enough 3D printers, laser cutters, soldering irons, and test equipment that I wouldn't hesitate to call it a legitimate hacker space. </div><div><br></div><div>It all depends on what you're doing, of course, but my main computer is a core2 Duo 1.6 GHz. Other than skeinforge I'm happy with the performance. Even with skeinforge, it takes ages to print so it isn't that bad. </div><div><br>Thanks,<div><br></div><div>gopi@iPhone</div><div><br></div></div><div><br>On Nov 7, 2011, at 18:07, Brian Morris <<a href="mailto:cymraegish@gmail.com">cymraegish@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>I just don't see how NB can call itself a hacker space without some good computers.<br><br>Right its like the low end of what people bring into the space with their laptops. <br><br>I guess that agrees with some notion of equal opportunity ?<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Ben Kochie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ben@nerp.net"><a href="mailto:ben@nerp.net">ben@nerp.net</a></a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hah, well, I'm sticking with what we have right now because we have no<br>
money to upgrade shit.<br>
<br>
It'd be nice to have a good efficient powerful box. We could provide a VM<br>
to run the robot without any extra power cost if we had a board with a<br>
modern CPU.<br>
<br>
The more I research this, the more it looks like we should just wait until<br>
AMD and Intel get over their current production issues with Bulldozer/Xeon<br>
E5-XXXX.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
-ben<br>
</font></span><div class="im HOEnZb"><br>
On Mon, 7 Nov 2011, miloh wrote:<br>
<br>
> why not stick with what we have until people start suggesting ARM server solutions?<br>
> -rma<br>
><br>
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