Building an Haiku Box

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I want to assemble a PC for HAiku, what is the best compatible hardware?

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It’s pretty hit or miss as far as hardware goes.

I remember mmu_man was playing around with a script that would gather system/hardware info and send it to a server (haikuware?). Presumably to build up an online hardware compatibility list. Don’t know what happened to that, but that would be a cool resource to have.

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That would be mmu_man’s HardwareChecker.sh. I does work, “just” needs the serverside infrastructure to collect the data in a database and have a nice website built around it. Best done as part of this webside, I’d say. Any takers?

WRT finding a working system: Best bet is still to put a Haiku image on a USB stick and booting it in the hardware store…

Regards,
Humdinger

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Incidentally, my main Haiku machine is a cheapie that I picked up at Walmart.

I was going to get a new computer to be my main Windows box, but I didn’t want to spend a lot of money on it (or time searching around). So I just went down to my local Walmart and grabbed the cheapest desktop that they had on the shelf. Which was an eMachines EL1352G-41W. $289 (plus tax).

But when I got home, I couldn’t resist trying to boot Haiku on it. And it worked. PERFECTLY.

It worked so well that I scrapped my plans, installed Haiku over Windows 7, and have used it happily as my main Haiku box for about 9 months now.

Specs:

	AMD Athlon II X2 220 dual-core processor 
	(a budget 64-bit chip, but it works great)

	NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE graphics chip
	(Haiku's nVidia driver works perfect for it)
	
	2 GB DDR3 memory
	
	500 GB SATA drive
	
	Media Card Reader
	(works great, have booted Haiku from SD card)

None of those specs would blow you away (it is a budget machine, after all).
But Haiku runs fantastic on it. The teapot demo runs at about 400 fps.

Sometimes you just get lucky without even trying.
:slight_smile:

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Thank you… I will try :slight_smile: