HP t5325 Unboxing and Quick Review

So, this thing has been talked about as a possible new machine to run RISC OS on, and the Linux community has shown an interest in it.

However, nobody knew what was inside of it. So I bought one, to figure out what was inside.

It's a 1.2 GHz Marvell 88F6281 Kirkwood CPU, as had been previously rumored, and an XGI Volari Z11 GPU with 8 MiB of VRAM. There's 512 megs of RAM and 512 megs of Flash (Serial ATA attached,) too. And, it has solder pads for a SATA connector (and SATA power, too) - not that it has room in the case for a SATA drive (although a CF to SATA adapter will fit no problem, I think.)

It's certainly an interesting alternative to the Beagleboard for Linux hacking, or for other ARM-based OSes.

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[jcii2]

Does the HP t5325 make any noise at all on it's own?

Or was your monitor making all the noise?

Does the HP t5325 have any fans?

[bhtooefr]

@jcii2 t5325 is completely fanless, and the only noise it makes is from the speaker.

The monitor is an IBM T221, which has some rather hefty processing to handle over a gigabyte per second of data being shoved through it. It takes some fans to cool that stuff off.

[Todd82TA]

But will it run DOS 5.0 with GeoWorks 1.2?

[bhtooefr]

@Todd82TA Well, it's running Debian, so I could slap qemu or bochs or something on there, and do exactly that. (And, there's also DOSBox.)

[Todd82TA]

@bhtooefr All I need now is an RLL/MFM to IDE to SATA converter.

[bhtooefr]

@Todd82TA I never got the SATA port working on mine, so an RLL/MFM to IDE converter, and then an off the shelf IDE to USB converter would work.

[ThePlayman555]

can y olay bf3 on that llllooooooooooooolllllllllllll­llllllllllllll

[jcii2]

@bhtooefr

Thanks for the quick response and the good information.

[TAYLOR13961]

Could you make another video please sir.

Download skype and make video & audio call test with HP Thin Client

[winawesomecoolkid]

Plug a 500GB-1TB USB thumb drive and it might be able to run Windows.

[hotron26]

what ever dont do dont buy it

[hotron26]

the metal is a heat sink