So I'm looking at buying about 100 micro computers for work to duck tape to the back of a monitor to put in physician offices. This is just a thought right now, but I'd need them to be able to be taped or something to the back of a monitor thats mounted to a wall.
It doesn't need to be powerful, but needs to be able to run an EMR application. I am currently looking at this:
and adding 4gig of ram, an SSD and a minimized windows 8.1 installation.
Do any of yall have any recommendation other than this specific device?
Different case use. Right now all the physicians have a laptop or surface pro, they want a device in the room that plays a video while they aren't in there and has access to our X-Ray imaging.
The tablet could do that pretty well, it would basically just replace the monitor, unless you wanted something larger than 10 inches, or you could just hook up the tablet via HDMI
Aside from the Intel Compute Sticks that are around $150 or a NUC your only other option for self build stuff is going to be the AM1 platform, or the other SOCs
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PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/jbjwxr
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/jbjwxr/by_merchant/
CPU: AMD 3850 1.3GHz Quad-Core Processor ($29.95 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: MSI AM1I Mini ITX AM1 Motherboard ($33.89 @ OutletPC)
Memory: Kingston 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($17.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Storage: Team DARK L3 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($39.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $121.82
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With this case, there are a lot of low cost ITX cases that come with a power supply, that one is just about the smallest I know of.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA24G2HM7437&cm_re=in_win_120w-_-11-108-416-_-Product
or one similar to it, it's VESA mountable
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Plus side to the AM1 option is that if any one part goes wrong it's easier to replace compared to a NUC I'd think
Or instead of that case for the same price you could get an Elite 110+ATX PSU, but that might be too big
Would a raspberry pi not work?
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For quick comparison's sake between the 3850 and N2820 in the NUC
Single Core is Identical, Multi-Core is a bit better on the 3850, there's also a slightly faster AM1 CPU option in the 5150 I think it is for a bit more
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp[]=2145&cmp[]=2209
No, we need a windows environment
Have you tried running it under WINE?
Raspberrypi these days can actually run windows...
That said, no clue how good it is or if it'd be worth it.
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Isn't it still ARM though? How would that even work
But like does it have full software support? Can't imagine most legacy software is going to run without issue
I have run this before thinking it was actually windows 10, no its just a developers environment for the rapsberry pi.
Back on topic, no I need an x86 install that's mostly turn key. This is for a business, not a maker project. I'm the only sys admin, i,don't have time or resources to fiddle around forcing something to work.
How large is that case? I'll look into thsee parts, thanks for the suggestion.
Tablet would be too small, we are putting in 22in monitors with these. Thino about the main client in medical, old folk. Old folk can't see.
If the monitors have DVI, then you could use a DVI to HDMI adapter and hook up the tablets to the display, and just velcro them on or something
The case is
7.6" x 3.0" x 8.9"
it's basically not much bigger than an ITX Board, seems to have decent reviews all around
If you ran lubuntu on it, it will probably run a lot faster than windows 10.
If they, monitors, have to be mounted on the wall then.. Intel Compute Stick w/ Win10 Home preloaded.
Since the NUC's would have to be jury rigged somehow, the NUC's can be VESA mounted behind a monitor but if the monitor itself is going to need the VESA mount for mounting to the wall.. Then you'd have to come up with something else for the NUC mounting..
But the Compute Stick.. That's about as turn key as it gets.
It only has 2GB of RAM though but it shouldn't be so bad with Win10 and it's memory compression.
How much RAM is that EMR application going to realistically require anyway?
EMR stands for Electronic Medical Record? Something like that shouldn't guzzle much me thinks..
I don't have Win10 installed but have a Pro version in a VM. Limited to 2GB of RAM after boot it settles down to 670MB. Can probably be optimized further by disabling useless stuff..
But wait, there's more!
CES 2016: Intel Compute Stick refreshed with better CPUs and more
Intel has JUST refreshed the Compute Stick lineup, found out about it while researching it now :D
Moar CPU, moar USB along with better networking.
Entry level model goes from Atom Z3735F (22nm Bay Trail-T) to Atom x5-z8300 (14nm Cherry Trail). Still 2GB/32GB.
AC 7265 802.11ac 2x2, BT 4.0, 1x/1x USB 2.0/3.0
Next up are M3 and M5 models.
They have m3-6Y30 and m5-6Y57 (vPro) CPU's respectively. But with 4GB/64GB. (notice the laptop CPU's)
AC 7265 802.11ac 2x2, BT 4.1, 3x USB (at least 1x 3.0)
Entry level 159$ with Windows 10 (in production, availability soon ™)
m3 399$ with Windows 10 (February)
m5 499$ with Windows 10 (February)
Those m models are way out of your price range and pretty overkill.
But the new entry level model with the Cherry Trail SoC is according to Intel twice as fast as the older one.
That's pretty plausible considering how much effort Intel has put into Atom these past few years and that it's the 22nm to 14nm node shrink (read: power/temperature).
Where the f was this when I was looking for a tablet for school. Android games to kill time windows for actual productivity. I looked all over for a dual boot system and found nonthing. Even has 2 gigs of ram something my asus memo pad I had didn't.