New Alix board for 2013
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Does anyone know the price?
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it should be in the $125 to $150 range
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Looks like it fits into the old enclosures (the alix.2 ones).
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I think that's a little bit steep. Maybe same price to replace old board would be a better choice. If units are installed on clients site and used for minor traffic then old units do just fine.
If plan is to not sell many of this (which I don't see why) then yeah higher price would be better. However, it's probably now cheaper to make the newer model than it is to make the older model.
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If true the ability to fit old enclosures is great. That's going to help system builders and people upgrading significantly. :)
Steve
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I think that's a little bit steep. Maybe same price to replace old board would be a better choice. If units are installed on clients site and used for minor traffic then old units do just fine.
If plan is to not sell many of this (which I don't see why) then yeah higher price would be better. However, it's probably now cheaper to make the newer model than it is to make the older model.
Um, $125-150 is pretty close to the street price of current Alix boards. And this has GB nics. Right now if you want to get a low power box with gig ports you need to get something like a 6501, which is twice the price. I predict they will sell well. Even if they come in at $175, I'd take one over a 2D13 every time.
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I also share the opinion (to each his own of course) that a sub 200 price isn't exaggerated, given the GB nics, better cpu, more RAM and possibility to install a HD so a full install should be feasible while remaining low-power (wonder though how all that will fit in the enclosure).
If it lives up to the expectations, I expect they will sell easily as it will be an affordable board in a segment where there is little competition…So eagerly waiting for the release here... ;)
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Fair enough for a better model and I would pay for it as I know it's still cheaper than other systems but maybe keep a simpler version still in the market - or even lower the price of the older models 8) - I would order many. It's just that an office of 3-5 people don't need anything better.
Some questions:
1- Would SD Cards be a better option in terms of stability or performance? or is it about price advantage?
2- The MILLION DOLLAR question: Is this still in development or should we expect this month? :P -
2- The MILLION DOLLAR question: Is this still in development or should we expect this month? :P
The web page states:
Status: Prototypes alive and well. Pilot run / customer samples planned for fall 2013. Production expected for early 2014.
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Things arrive quicker when you don't wait for them.
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Googling "Realtek RTL8111E" doesn't give me any warm fuzzy feelings. I wish they went with something else. A chain is only as strong as it's weakest link. I don't mind if some of my workstations have Realtek NIC's, but I want my router/firewall to have the best.
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You still have the two miniPCIe slots.
There you can put something like: http://www.spectra.ch/produkte/130224/web/spectra/Datasheet-MEC-ETH-101.pdf -
Hmm, about warm fuzzy feelings. What does that actually translate to in relation to network interfaces?
edit: Please no "intel" answer. I am interested in nasty technical details.
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The newer Realtek NICs aren't all that bad. Mostly their throughput isn't quite as advertised and they require more CPU cycles to push packets.
Steve
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I think that's a little bit steep. Maybe same price to replace old board would be a better choice. If units are installed on clients site and used for minor traffic then old units do just fine.
If plan is to not sell many of this (which I don't see why) then yeah higher price would be better. However, it's probably now cheaper to make the newer model than it is to make the older model.
Um, $125-150 is pretty close to the street price of current Alix boards. And this has GB nics. Right now if you want to get a low power box with gig ports you need to get something like a 6501, which is twice the price. I predict they will sell well. Even if they come in at $175, I'd take one over a 2D13 every time.
At the ~175$ range, in Canada, you can grab a Giada N70E-DR with a Celeron 1037U with 2 82574s in a mini-itx format.. With ram, it'll cost a touch more but still, IVB vs bobcat/atom and it'd crush a 6501 into little bits for less cost.
After seeing the specs, I'm not really a big fan, but their component placement seems pretty great but it'll live or die depending on heatsinking performance to the case.
However, the "Roadmap: We will upgrade to the newer AMD Kabini / Jaguar core based SOCs, up to 2 GHz quad core (Opteron X1150), up to 4 GB ECC DRAM" is dangling a carrot in front of me and would probably be closer to my dream alix. Hoping they avoid Realtek, but not counting on it..
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Hi!
At the EuroBSDcon in Malta we had a paper with the specifications of the new alix platform!http://i.imgur.com/712EXOx.jpg
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hi, will pfsene 2.1 support these APU/chipsets ?????
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Accelerated_Processing_Unit
Since it‘s x86: yes -
can i install pfsense 64 bit here? and FreeBSD 9.2?
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The Bobcat core CPU is 64bit capable and I see no reason why you couldn't install FreeBSD 9.2 if you wanted to. It wouldn't be pfSense though.
Perhaps you've asked the wrong question here? ;)Steve
