[TriEmbed] In need of a tiny, cheap, powerful(ish) computer

[John Vaughters]

Cubox has several selections 1,2,4 cores, 1-1.2 GHz speed, 2-4 GB memory. You didn't really give a specification of what your speed issues were. More Cores can definitely help., but you may need to use threads, communicating processes. In any case, here is a small computer that is in your price range.  I use a 2-core 2GB version for XBMC (KODI). It works pretty well and I will probably use it for some other applications as well in the future. If you look at more of their solutions, you can basically get the same computer without the case and a little cheaper.
John Vaughters
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     On Monday, September 21, 2015 3:07 PM, Jeremy Davis via TriEmbed <triembed at triembed.org> wrote:
   

 I recently visited this place, Kramden Institute, after they announced they were giving away free LED monitors on the Splatspace list.They have stock piles of old computers donated and volunteers on Wednesday evenings help refurbish them for kids who need computers. They apparently sell refurbished computers for fund raising at a nice price. Here is a snippet from their rep Lyle:
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Hi everyone,An update to the posting: we need to limit the amount of monitors per individual to 10 until we get our stock down a bit. We get $4 from our e-recycler for each one, so we can't give them all away for free. That was my mistake. However, if anyone would like more or if we reach our limit of free ones to give away, anyone can pay us $4 per monitor and take as many as they want. And I believe they are all vesa mounts, should all be Lenovo Thinkvisions. They are mostly 19", with a few that are a bit larger. Some are scratched, but you should be able to pick through enough of them to find some you can use.
Also, if you are ever in need of a slightly older but completely refurbished desktop/laptop, we hold surplus sales one Thursday of every month: http://kramden.org/sales/. And if you need to recycle any computer equipment or decide to give back any monitors you don't use, all equipment we receive goes to support our programs.
Thanks for your interest!
Lile
lile.stephens at gmail.com
On Sep 21, 2015 1:52 PM, "Adam Haile via TriEmbed" <triembed at triembed.org> wrote:

Anyone have a recommendation for a decent, tiny, and cheap (<$150) PC? I need something to drive the big LED display permanently. The original plan was to use a Raspberry Pi 2, but it lacked the necessary oomph. I was able to run it with little problem off my Lenovo S21e (Celeron N2840) but I wouldn't want to go less powerful than that. And I'd rather higher clock speed (> 2GHz) than more cores. Right now, my only real thought is to buy another S21e (about $170) but a whole laptop seems kind of silly... and for some odd reason, I cannot get basically the same hardware in a tiny PC... you know, without a screen, keyboard, and battery :P
Note... part of the reason for the needed power is I've got it setup to do some video display, both from video files and a webcam... that is just dog slow on the Pi. 
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