Fitlet, A Fanless PC Smaller Than A NUC

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The Fitlet-B uses an E1-6200T and the Fitlet-I / Fitlet-X uses an A4-6400T. These SoCs pull less than 4.5 Watts and sport Radeon R2/R3 Graphics. The Fitlets can ship with up to 8GB of RAM, mSATA drive support, and up to four Gigabit Ethernet controllers. The specs on the Fitlet are quite nice and can be shown in full via this product page. 

 

The I/O on this thing  :blink:

[ZetZet]

Okay, the only question I have is WHY THE FUCK amd? But it looks sweet.

[AlwaysFSX]

Why are there four ethernet ports?

[Sidiox]

Damn I love that I/O, but that choice of AMD instead of Intel is rather odd.

[Sidiox]

Why are there four ethernet ports?

pFsense box?, If I could hook up some cheap antennas to it it would beat any other router/AP unit I know

[AMICLG]

If it only had a Core M for more single thread performance and the new AES instruction set (OpenVPN is single threaded) this would totally make a kick-ass pfSense router.

[JoaoPRSousa]

Why are there four ethernet ports?

Fuck logic

Okay, the only question I have is WHY THE FUCK amd? But it looks sweet.

What's wrong with AMD? (pls don't make this a AMD vs Intel topic)

[ZetZet]

Fuck logic

What's wrong with AMD? (pls don't make this a AMD vs Intel topic)

It's just recently AMD low power chips were reaaaaaaally far behind Intel Atoms and such. And Intel just had another jump to even better efficiency, while amd is still stuck. I mean look at it 1 ghz of amd single core power? When amd released the C50 and E350 and such I was hyped for high performance tablets and small form factor PC's, but since then they got crushed by intel and haven't recovered.

[WereCat]

Okay, the only question I have is WHY THE FUCK amd? But it looks sweet.

Very low power. Very cool. Fanless. Cheap.

[ZetZet]

Very low power. Very cool. Fanless.

Very low performance. 

[007agentHP]

Very low performance. 

a pc like isnt really made for performance

i bet it would work as a basic pc for a family member or an htpc

[werto165]

At first I thought it said fillet, but then I said to myself, no that's way too fishy....

[ZetZet]

a pc like isnt really made for performance

i bet it would work as a basic pc for a family member or an htpc

I am sure it would. Just I don't see how it's a good choice still. Maybe if it helped bring the cost down. 

[WereCat]

Very low performance.

Depends what you are using it for. Gaming? Bad. Home server? Good. Home media center? Good.

[Norman_the_Owl]

What's wrong with AMD? (pls don't make this a AMD vs Intel topic)

AMD isn't nearly as good as intel as far as CPUs are concerned, especially at the low power consumption level

[shujin]

price of this thing ?

[Laputacake]

At first I thought it said fillet, but then I said to myself, no that's way too fishy....

You sir, *tips hat*.

[007agentHP]

AMD isn't nearly as good as intel as far as CPUs are concerned, especially at the low power consumption level

amd apu vs intel apu

amd wins

there is no way to put a gpu in a case that small

[Norman_the_Owl]

amd apu vs intel apu

amd wins

there is no way to put a gpu in a case that small

Give it a few months, broadwell intelgrated graphics will almost certainly smash AMD APUs without question. Intel's put a lot of money into that

[AMICLG]

Why are there four ethernet ports?

They're expecting it to be used as some sort of embedded router/server.

 

pFsense box?, If I could hook up some cheap antennas to it it would beat any other router/AP unit I know

pfSense doesn't support Wi-Fi very well unless it's an Atheros card and most high end cards are Broadcom based. Also client wireless cards aren't meant to handle 10-50 devices connected to it, they're made for one; that being the router. which sucks because one small box like that to power everything would destroy any consumer router.

[007agentHP]

Give it a few months, broadwell intelgrated graphics will almost certainly smash AMD APUs without question. Intel's put a lot of money into that

intel has broadwell, amd has carrizo (new apu lined up for Q1 of this year)

lets see the fight happen

[marldorthegreat]

It's just recently AMD low power chips were reaaaaaaally far behind Intel Atoms and such. And Intel just had another jump to even better efficiency, while amd is still stuck. I mean look at it 1 ghz of amd single core power? When amd released the C50 and E350 and such I was hyped for high performance tablets and small form factor PC's, but since then they got crushed by intel and haven't recovered.

No they are not. Surprisingly they are very good

[Sidiox]

They're expecting it to be used as some sort of embedded router/server.

 

pfSense doesn't support Wi-Fi very well unless it's an Atheros card and most high end cards are Broadcom based. Also client wireless cards aren't meant to handle 10-50 devices connected to it, they're made for one; that being the router. which sucks because one small box like that to power everything would destroy any consumer router.

Aw damn that sux, still though, I have a high end Linksys AP, I could hook that up to it, and that *should* work

[AMICLG]

Aw damn that sux, still though, I have a high end Linksys AP, I could hook that up to it, and that *should* work

Wireless APs work fine as long as the device your connecting it to has DHCP enabled, consumer routers work too, if you stick them into bridged mode they're just a wireless AP then.

[TroubleKlef]

Wouldn't it have been much more power efficient to stay away from AMD?

 

I mean that is the point of this kind of thing?