I have had my MicroClient Sr. running Xubuntu 7.10 for about a month now. I have swapped the Compact Flash install for a 2.5″ 80Gb HD install instead. This made boot times a bit faster and also stopped me worrying about read/write limits on the CF card.
The MicroClient runs OK as an every day desktop [...]
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As I mentioned in my post on installing Xubuntu on the MicroClient, the default video driver that Xubuntu goes for is VESA. While this at least works, screen re-drawing and animation can be painfully slow when the CPU is under heavy load.
The video chipset is the VIA CX700M, specifically the “3157″ integrated video processor. The [...]
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Just a quick post with a little in depth information about the CPU in the MicroClient Sr.
The CPU is made by VIA and is from the Eden ULV family. ULV stands for Ultra Low Voltage. The clock speed is 500MHz with a Front Side Bus (FSB) speed of 400MHz. Power consumption is extremely low at [...]
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So for the last couple of days I have been preparing and installing Xubuntu 7.10 on my MicroClient Sr.
I had a similar idea to Nicolas314 over on the forum in that I planned to install by using a USB key, because the MicroClient doesn’t have an optical drive. The basic idea of this process is [...]
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Here are some photos of my MicroClient Sr. as I took it out of the box for the first time!
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Cheers.
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I finally got my MicroClient yesterday! Woohoo!
My first impressions are that it is so much smaller than I imagined it would be. I have taken some pictures (that I will upload later). So far, all I have done is turn it on and have a poke around in the BIOS. I will probably [...]
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If you are like me, and are interested in or have purchased the Norhtec MicroClient then you may be interested in the MicroClient Fans discussion forum run by Nicolas314, as he suggests in this comment. Nicolas314 is part of a group of French MicroClient enthusiasts who have placed a bulk order with Norhtec.
I suggest that [...]
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After the response I got from Norhtec on Tuesday, I was thinking that it would probably be another 2 weeks or so before I got any further sign of my Microclient Sr.
However, there is a small glimmer of hope. I was checking my on-line banking (as you do) and happened to notice that the available [...]
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I have started this blog to document my purchase and subsequent use of a small form-factor (SFF) computer called the MicroClient Sr.
Made by Thailand-based Norhtec, the MicroClient Sr. is the higher powered descendent of the popular MicroClient Jr. machine.
The MicroClient Sr. features a 500Mhz ULV (Ultra Low Voltage) processor from Via and 512MB of RAM. [...]
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Idea!
So, it seems like there are a few prospective and one current (congratulations David Wilson! ) MicroClient owners out there. Would you guys like me to set up a forum somewhere to have discussions/updates etc? It seems to me this would be better than you guys just leaving comments on this blog.
Let me know [...]
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