On 22.03.15 10:00, Craig Sanders wrote:
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 08:45:51AM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
Quoting Erik Christiansen (dvalin@internode.on.net):
I might put up my hand at some future offer - though the crazy low price for Rick's nifty little find:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157574
Reminder: Yr. humble servant being a Bloody Yank despite knowing how to spell 'colour' and having generally Pommie diction[1], and being a decent cricket batsman, said link's pricing is in US$, and I am not totally certain that Newegg is an Oz vendor. (You would know, presumably.) I do know that some (e.g.) ASRock motherboard models are available in Oz but not North America and vice-versa, as well.
i don't think newegg will ship to australia. ISTR reading somewhere once upon a time that they don't...by my brain's ram is non-ecc and fallible.
The two older mini-ITX boards, which still serve, came from Jetway, so I've looked there, but their mobo page search engine knows no ASRock or Kabini. :-(
there are, however, several shops and online stores that sell HTPC and mini/micro-ITX gear. try a google search for "Kabini site:au" or "AM1 site:au"
shopbot, for example, shows several places that have an almost identical model to the one Rick mentioned (but with built-in wifi) for around $145
And altech.com.au has an identical price. If we compare the US$62 Newegg price: 145 - 62/.75 = A$62 higher locally. Allow some of that for exchange fees, international shipping, the unwanted wifi, and GST which only applies to the local one, then the feasibility of local warranty replacement/repair isn't costing much. I'll have to have a look at Rick's low power mobo thread first. (Well, second - haven't build that CSS lib yet. Well, third - need to eat.) Erik -- US surgeon Alton Ochsner recalled that when he was a medical student in 1919 his class was summoned to observe an autopsy of a lung cancer victim. At that time, the disease was so rare it was thought unlikely the students would ever get another chance. - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20042217