[Cialug] Small and quiet Linux box suggestions

[Matthew Nuzum]

As I understand it, the Iris graphics processors are very good. Still not going to beat the discrete cards for very high end work, but most people will find them more than suitable on the Haswell platform. http://www.anandtech.com/show/6993/intel-iris-pro-5200-graphics-review-core-i74950hq-tested/17

Case in point, the highest end 15" Mac Book Pro is the only laptop model Apple makes with discrete graphics. All the other Pro models have the Iris graphics.
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On Apr 25, 2014, at 9:10 AM, Daniel A. Ramaley <daniel.ramaley at drake.edu> wrote:

> On 2014-04-23 at 10:40:30 David Champion wrote:
>> I've got one of the Asus / Atom mini PC's. It's OK but the CPU is just
>> too slow for me.
>> I think any of the Shuttle / Asus / Intel mini PC's with a Core i5 or
>> better would work well for you.
>> -dc
> 
> This sounds like a good possibility for something that is small and 
> quiet, but still has good performance when needed:
> 
> http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/02/a-turbo-charged-quad-core-mini-desktop-gigabytes-brix-pro-reviewed/
> 
> It has "Intel Iris Pro 5200" graphics. I don't know what graphics are 
> like today, but last time i checked, Intel was slow but compatible (open 
> source drivers!), nVidia was fast but required proprietary drivers, and 
> ATI was fast but the proprietary drivers were unstable. That was at 
> least 5-6 years ago though; far enough in the past that ATI wasn't yet 
> called AMD. Does Intel still have open source drivers? My current 
> machine has an nVidia card, and while i've not had any problems with it, 
> i would be quite happy if i could get back to a fully open-source system 
> again.
> 
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