My New AMD 50x15 PIC Computer!!!

Guess what I just bought today for a steal of a price??? I got the AMD 50x15 PIC Computer.

I got it home, plugged it in, and have been fooling around on it. It is very fast, and has a compatible version of some type of windows office version on it, but my wife dragged me out to go shopping before I could really look at it. I have to go watch a movie with her now, but I wanted to brag about it first. I got it at Goodwill Computer Works (NEW NEVER USED!!!) for the very low price of $40 USD... Yeah, I know...
Here are the specs...


Hardware Configuration

Unit dimensions 5.5" wide x 8.5" deep x 2.5" high 3 lbs.
AMD Geode GX processor
Integrated DDR memory
Audio controller with Stereo headphone & /microphone jacks
4 USB ports – support printers, Flash memory, disk drives, and network adapters
10GB 3.5" internal hard disk
Internal 56K v.92 modem
VGA and modem ports

Software and Applications

Operating System – Windows CE 5.0
Web Browser – Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0
E-mail
Macromedia Flash Player 6
Windows Media Player
Presentation viewer for PowerPoint
Windows Messenger chat
Microsoft Windows CE 2D Game Pack
Spreadsheet and Full Function Word Processor – Compatible with Microsoft Excel/Microsoft Word
Image viewer – .jpg, .bmp, .png, and .gif filetypes
Zip/Unzip compression utility





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Wayyyy cool!

You keep finding these toys at second-hand places. Wonder when I'll have that kind of luck here.

A CE device with a hard drive and an AMD processor (x86 architecture?) - that's a new one on me.

EDIT: I found a seller from your neighborhood who has a bunch of them for just a bit more than what you paid:

http://cgi.ebay.com/AMD-Model-50X15-Mini-Computers_W0QQitemZ300248751353QQihZ020QQcategoryZ36332QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1638Q2em118Q2el1247

So tell us more about this device in case some of us want one.

Edited by CE Geek 2008-09-01 12:48 AM

heh i always wanted one

CE Geek: remember someone else on the forums got one 1-2 years ago.. seems hard to hack

It's a good candidate for an instant-on internet station that could rival my Skeyepad-based one. I'd love to see it with monitor, keybaord, Ethernet, WiFi, printer, USB flash driver, mic and earphone with messenger and so on in action.

Mine came with a mouse, key board, power cord, all other wires needed, and a USB Ethernet adapter. I hooked it up to my Dell LCD monitor, and it works great. I still have not had time to really play with it yet.

Not quite instant on though. takes about 5 to 15 seconds to full boot. It is however instant off.


Oh yeah, here is the link
http://www.50x15.com/en-us/about.aspx

Ah, it uses HD instead of SSD. 15s is still close to instant.

open it up install and SSD and use Standby (bet with an SSD it will burn virtually no power in standby) then you have instant on. (unless HDD spins down in Standby)

Do most HPC's not use Stanby to achive instant on?

It does have suspend and standby with instant on after.

Yeah, I remember now - here are the threads:

http://www.hpcfactor.com/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=8356&posts=31

http://www.hpcfactor.com/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=8736&posts=7

Wonder if Sch01ar's been lurking around here lately.

I am going to get a new USB wifi adapter today to try out the wifi capabilities on the new machine. The only thing I don't like about this whole situation is that now I have to get a new monitor. And my wife doesn't like anything about the new computer...

How'd the wi-fi go?

I didn't have time to go by the store, and I might not have time for the rest of the week... Maybe next week...

My home PC died today So I hooked up this AMD PIC, and for the first time connected it to the internet. I am using it now... I can't believe how slow the IE is on this, and it is a lot slower surfing than I thought it would be. It is completely locked up, and I cannot install any software.

Oh well, at least it works until I get a new computer... I am looking to build a quad-core, and now I have an excuse to do so...

I noticed the new manufacturer (same people that make the cathena CE laptop) has tools etc. to install linux.

May be worth a try at some point.

John

Maybe I am just used to linux and Firefox... the computer freezes up every web page...

I can not install anything software... they really have it locked up.

My plan for this PIC was to use it as a guest room surfing machine.

Sorry for the complaint... I guess I am really used to a duel-core computer with 4gig of RAM...

This PIC is a big leap in the wrong direction for me... I think it would be better if I was not using it as a desktop replacement at the moment.

Edited by Yoldering 2008-10-22 7:55 AM