$69 Windows 10 notebook

With the promo code, it's $69:  http://www.frys.com/product/8573369#detailed
 
For the price, it's hard to complain.  I wonder how the oomph compares to a Raspberry Pi 3?

Looks like it's an Atom Baytrail.  It would be faster than the RPI.  1Gb of memory is a bit light.

Now it's $69.95 for the two year warranty insurance.
 
The computer is $122, pickup only.
 
But it got you to the webpage, so that worked.

LarrylLix said:

Now it's $69.95 for the two year warranty insurance.
 
The computer is $122, pickup only.
 
But it got you to the webpage, so that worked.

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Huh?  No, I don't think so.  
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I think Pete made the right call though: not enough memory.  Anyhow, it's over now.

Strange. That's not the price I saw. I put it in the cart to see what the shipping was too. That's where the extended warranties showed up.
 
Now the price is $170.

Do you guys think that this would have enough power to run zoneminder or blue iris with a half dozen cameras?

I was just shopping that neweggbusiness site and it looks like they have some refurbished laptops that give you more bang for the buck.
 
Mike.

mikefamig said:

I was just shopping that neweggbusiness site and it looks like they have some refurbished laptops that give you more bang for the buck.

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The question then is what's worse, rolling the dice on used/"refurb" or no-name random stuff.  Tough call.

mikefamig said:

Do you guys think that this would have enough power to run ZoneMinder (http://zoneminder.com) or blue iris with a half dozen cameras?

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no

That's wht I like about you DEL, you don't mince words.

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The question then is what's worse, rolling the dice on used/"refurb" or no-name random stuff.  Tough call.

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I will almost always choose a used quality tool over a no-name tool. I have two "A" series laptops made by IBM that are about 15 years old and won't die. Most good used business laptops become obsolete before they die.
 
I'm not in the market for either right now and just put the question out there for the input. I plan to put together a video system at some point and don't like a dedicated NVR as much as a multi purpose computer and I like the idea of a small machine that won't use a lot of electricity. It seems to me that a decent used dual core Intel ought to do the job.
 
Mike.

What is an "IBM"?
 
:rofl:

mikefamig said:

I plan to put together a video system at some point and don't like a dedicated NVR as much as a multi purpose computer

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Heh, I've been there, meanwhile a dedicated NVR has stayed running, unattended, for years now.  "Multi-function" often ends up meaning "yet another thing to babysit".
 
That and sometimes the effort to fight against a laptop's intent to be power-conserving gets in the way of making effective use of it 'headless' for this kind of thing.
 
But, yeah, if you can narrow down just the right configuration and resource requirements, some of those old machines are probably quite workable.

Folks are running ZoneMinder (http://zoneminder.com) on the RPi2 today.  It is just a tweak here and there.
 
IE: friend who is a professor in a UK University has it running fine with an Axis server and 4 cameras (note that this is legacy SD and not HD).
 
You can easily run Ubuntu server on the Chromebook starting it with 1Gb of RAM; then build a ram drive on a fast 3.0 USB stick giving you what you need.
 
I run Ubuntu 64 bit on the PipoX7 (2Gb RAM) and it is way faster than 32 bit Windows 10.

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Heh, I've been there, meanwhile a dedicated NVR has stayed running, unattended, for years now.  "Multi-function" often ends up meaning "yet another thing to babysit".
 
That and sometimes the effort to fight against a laptop's intent to be power-conserving gets in the way of making effective use of it 'headless' for this kind of thing.
 
But, yeah, if you can narrow down just the right configuration and resource requirements, some of those old machines are probably quite workable.

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This is gospel. Something has to be said for a piece of hardware that would require minimal user interaction, The issues end up with a machine running an OS that is then exposed to the outside world or has another piece of software installed and random services interacting. Knowing what's in a particular fishbowl and how it functions is better than a ton of other items that may or may not interact with each other.
 
On a standard OS and hardware platform on a COTS machine....unless you go through everything with a fine toothed comb to make sure it's correct (or the 3rd party recorder software does it automatically).