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Pengwuino
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A Netbook as a NAS/PS/etc all-in-one??
So I was thinking something just now! Print servers are expensive if you want to attach a printer to a network. Getting built in network support is even more expensive. Same thing for network attached storage. However, I just realized, aren't netbooks like, the simplest way to combine anything like that? Just as long as the netbook is online, it can act like all sorts of fancy gadgets!
Or can it? I can get used netbooks for less than $200 from friends who go through netbooks somewhat often. Does anyone know or have any ideas about making such a device into a kind of all-in-one server? Sure you would have to have all your equipment near the netbook but that's kind of the situation I'm in at the moment with my parent's office. I wonder what other ideas I could spark out of this?
DISCUSS!
So I was thinking something just now! Print servers are expensive if you want to attach a printer to a network. Getting built in network support is even more expensive. Same thing for network attached storage. However, I just realized, aren't netbooks like, the simplest way to combine anything like that? Just as long as the netbook is online, it can act like all sorts of fancy gadgets!
Or can it? I can get used netbooks for less than $200 from friends who go through netbooks somewhat often. Does anyone know or have any ideas about making such a device into a kind of all-in-one server? Sure you would have to have all your equipment near the netbook but that's kind of the situation I'm in at the moment with my parent's office. I wonder what other ideas I could spark out of this?
DISCUSS!