The idea of using a simple, low-profile, low-performance, but also low-cost, low-power consumption and low-maintainance non-mainstream platforms as servers is absolutely nothing new. I have a great fondness for the very idea of using Atom CPUs as servers, and there are already commercial solutions with such a setup available out there. As soon as I can justify using it in a project, I will :)
But for now, I have an Atom-based netbook and I tried seeing what exactly can I expect from such a system in terms of performance.
