{"id":8391,"date":"2009-04-30T07:47:37","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T11:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.legitreviews.com:\/\/b8637a1a07a1d9dccc8194fbc724eb29"},"modified":"2009-04-30T07:47:37","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T11:47:37","slug":"hps-mediasmart-server-lx195-starts-at-just-400-thanks-to-intel-atom-cpus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=8391","title":{"rendered":"HP&#8217;s MediaSmart Server LX195 Starts at Just $400 Thanks to Intel Atom CPUs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, details emerged of HP&#39;s MediaSmart Server LX195, a home server packing a 1.6GHz Atom 230 processor that&#39;s priced at $400 with 1GB of memory and a 640GB hard disk drive. To date, HP has been using Intel Celeron and Advanced Micro Devices&#39; Sempron processors.<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/news\/2009\/hp-lx-195-media-server.jpg\" alt=\"HP MediaSmart Server LX195\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Earlier this month, Acer rolled out the Acer AspireRevo, a small, slick box that augments the Atom with an Nvidia Ion chipset to boost graphics performance. This is expected to be priced well under $300 for some models. Asus was one of the first to bring out a head-swiveling Atom-based desktop&#8211;the Eee Box, which has been updated recently with ATI graphics. By design, Atom is a more power-frugal and, as a result, a slower processor than Intel&#39;s mainstream Core 2 chip architecture. HP, for example, markets its MediaSmart server as a storage hub, which typically doesn&#39;t require much processing punch. And Atom is cheap&#8211;the Atom 230 is $29, whereas comparative Celeron chips are about $34 but draw much more power. And mainstream Core 2 Duo desktop processors start at about $110. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, details emerged of HP&#39;s MediaSmart Server LX195, a home server packing a 1.6GHz Atom 230 processor that&#39;s priced at $400 with 1GB of memory and a 640GB hard disk drive. To date, HP has been using Intel Celeron and Advanced Micro Devices&#39; Sempron processors.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/news\/2009\/hp-lx-195-media-server.jpg\" alt=\"HP MediaSmart Server LX195\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Earlier this month, Acer rolled out the Acer AspireRevo, a small, slick box that augments the Atom with an Nvidia Ion chipset to boost graphics performance. This is expected to be priced well under $300 for some models. Asus was one of the first to bring out a head-swiveling Atom-based desktop&#8211;the Eee Box, which has been updated recently with ATI graphics. By design, Atom is a more power-frugal and, as a result, a slower processor than Intel&#39;s mainstream Core 2 chip architecture. HP, for example, markets its MediaSmart server as a storage hub, which typically doesn&#39;t require much processing punch. And Atom is cheap&#8211;the Atom 230 is $29, whereas comparative Celeron chips are about $34 but draw much more power. And mainstream Core 2 Duo desktop processors start at about $110. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=8391\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}