[PLUG] PC Engines group order

Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com
Thu Nov 5 22:00:26 UTC 2020


On Thu, 5 Nov 2020, Russell Senior wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> Over at Personal Telco Project, we have every few years done a group
> order from pcengines.ch (the ch stands for Switzerland). Pcengines is
> a one-person design shop that develops and sells single-board
> computers, initially a thing called the WRAP board, then the Alix and
> these days the APU. They are designed to be routers with optional
> miniPCI or miniPCIe interfaces for radios. The prices are good, but
> the shipping has historically been around $40 per order, which is why
> we've done group orders, to reduce the sting of the shipping charges.
> It looks like the last group order I did was in 2016.

Just to chime in, I ordered a apu2c4 -- now superseded by newer 
models, but largely the same hardware -- in 2016. I run FreeBSD on it 
and it's a champ.

The initial bootstrapping was a bit of a pain, but since then it just 
runs, completely silently, performing some backup functions and 
occasionally serving as my network-test host.

No one will confuse it with a high-powered workstation, but it's a 
great little "set it and forget it" device.

-- 
Paul Heinlein
heinlein at madboa.com
45°38' N, 122°6' W


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