Dell OptiPlex 160 Big things in a Small Package!
I had high hopes of this little power-saving machine, ordering one hoping to replace approx. 110 power-hungry machines. Unfortunately, the config with 2GB and a dual-core Atom processor, running XP SP3, proved to be to slow. When running only one task at once things were OK-ish. But still noticably slower in normal office-tasks then a 2 Ghz P4 with 2 GB. It also couldn't handle video-files with high resolutions (720p and up) and bitrates without hickups. Although we don't regularly require that of our machines, it gives an idea of the computing power of this machines We were disappointed the Dell chose for SiS to provide integrated graphics. Getting it to run under linux required a portuguese package. To our surpise, 1920x1200 outpur did not work over DVI. We are still trying to get it to work over sub-D, as Dell states it can, but that will require manually entering monitor-timings (under Linux, that is). As we didn't want to 'downgrade' from aformentioned P4, we decided to go with regular desktop computers, and skip this generation of tiny PCs. But one day, when these small machines are pwerfull enough, all the desktops will be replaced by machines like this.
millerbQ
San Antonio, TX