Solid state PC on the cheap!

[richwiller]

After being on MJ for about a month I realized that those double HD's spinning away in my desktop were consumming about 200 watts per hour. My saving on the phone bill would be reduced by 10 to 15 dollars a month, not bad but there has to be some "end of life time" building on drives and fans etc. saying nothing about the heat added to the house during cooling season. My solution was find a cheap, solid state, low cost, low tech way to do this. Here's what I came up with and how to do this in less time than trying to configure some non-pc internet device to work reliabily all the time.
Purchased :
Acer Emachine lap top model # E 527 at Micro Center WIN 7/ 64 Bit Home Prem. $279. reg. price
OCZ Aglity 2 60 gig SSD (solid state drive) $ 99. after reb.
Apricorn Sata to USB Drive clone package complete. $ 20.

Spent approx 1/2 hr. cloning existing Emachine drive to OCZ SSD then shut down, removed battery from laptop, removed drive from bottom of laptop, removed 160 gig hard drive from its mount and replaced with OCZ and re-ininstalled to laptop. The beauty of using the laptop, is dedicated display, keyboard, and several hours of battery backup. I use an ethernet cable to connect to the router even though the wireless on the laptop works well, just one less place for problems though. The laptop screen is set to "sleep in 5 min," but the drive is set to "never sleep" and who cares since its just like the rest of the "ram" there until needed. Yeah this is about $400 in hardware with a rather long payback for me but it is working great and is still just a simple PC platform, nothing to deal with other than putting a copy of the MJ icon in "Start Up." Feel free to contact me with questions.

[gashliquor]

What your doing you can do the same thing with a GOOD Thin Client, But i prefer ATA over Thin Client. A nice HP Thin Client and ready to go for use with a MJ is about $100.00 - 115.00 tops. Your device or a Thin Client is'nt worth the $ IMO for a MJ. Running the MJ ATA Style is a different setup and a hell of alot better. I don't run my MJ in my puter either and never will. Computer On/Off i still send/get calls.

[newtoncd]

Purchased :
Acer Emachine lap top model # E 527 at Micro Center WIN 7/ 64 Bit Home Prem. $279. reg. price
OCZ Aglity 2 60 gig SSD (solid state drive) $ 99. after reb.
Apricorn Sata to USB Drive clone package complete. $ 20.

With the current rate magicJack is blocking numbers, putting that much into a client to run the dongle just doesn't make sense to me.

I spent $100 on my Acer Revo (thin client) and am thinking that was too much.

[GuyOnTheAir]

With the current rate magicJack is blocking numbers,

What do you mean by this?

[nailgunner]

With the current rate magicJack is blocking numbers,

What do you mean by this?

As an acquaintance of mine is fond of saying, a search might be helpful. For WELL over a month they have apparently blocked the whole state of Alaska, and a ton of rural exchanges. Search and enjoy your reading. They are compiling a list of blocked exchanges over on DSLReports.

[GuyOnTheAir]

Wow. That condescending attitude doesn't look very good on you. Geez. I asked you what you meant. I didn't need a reminder to use search. I'm very familiar with these forums, having posted much more than you...

Thank you for explaining. It's almost as if you were saying in your post that they might block your mJ number, so it wouldn't be wise to invest in a machine...