Review: Everex gPCmini with gOS Linux
Everex's gPC mini is a small, quiet, powerful $500 computer with a hip Linux-based operating system designed for MySpace users and others who appreciate the entertainment value of PCs. With a few simple hardware tweaks, the gPC is sure to delight fun-loving PC users of all ages.
The Mini is part of Everex's gPC (green PC) line of energy efficient PCs, which includes the $200 WalMart desktop. My Watt meter showed the Mini pegging out at 33 Watts during startup or compiling a kernel, and hovering near 25 Watts most of the time. Completely idle, it still tends to pull 25 Watts, though that could probably be fixed by users willing to install the free powertop utility, and to customize their system based on its recommendations. The system has a fan, but runs very quiet. Based on Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon), it boots quickly, too -- at least until Compiz and the Avant Window Manager start (they do start most of the time).
The Mini comes with a version of gOS called "space." The space build is based on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon, with customization by David Liu, a 22-year old hailing from Los Angeles. Lui's contributions include cool space wallpaper, and configuring the excellent and ultra flashy Compiz framework (a Beryl fork) with lots of gratuitous yet juicy graphical effects. Liu also created a prominent AWN launch bar loaded with stacks of shortcuts to seemingly all of the very hippest websites out there -- especially if you want to use the Internet to watch movies and video shorts, discover and listen to music, and experiment with online applications such as Google Apps, SplashUP, Picnik, FauxTo, and so on.
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