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Here's anther great, inexpensive candidate for a home automation server.  The HP DX2250 features a 2.6GHz ATHLON 64 X2 5000+, has 2GB or RAM and a 250GB drive.  It even ships with Vista, although you may like to change that to Windows Home Server or your favourite flavour of Linux.  With the limited time offer of £50 cashback this is a true bargain PC at around £155+vat !

UPDATE - This deal has been extended until the 14th December now, and the max number of units allowed per customer has been up'd from 2 to 3.   Link to the Extended Deal HERE .

Here's a great tip-off from a post on our mailing list this morning.  Dell have the £99 +vat Server deal on again, for today only and limited to 1,000 machines.  The Dell PowerEdge SC440 is a dual core machine with 2 x 80gig SATA drives, a gig of RAM and comes with the Bronze 1 year Next Business Day Onsite Response.  We've just ordered our two (max of two per customer allowed). 

Click HERE for the deal 

Here's more on the new HP Windows Home Server that's just 30 days away from shipping .  The machine is much smaller than we thought, and this video gives you a good understanding of the power of this little device, and how convenient it is to simply slide drives in or out...

Damn that's small! There's no excuse not have a PC anywhere you need it now with the latest minuscule "Pico" ITX form factor...

"Chip-maker Via Technologies has revealed details about its "pico-ITX" hardware reference design, and promised to announce its first commercially available mainboard based on the new form-factor "soon." Slightly smaller than the venerable PC/104 standard, pico-ITX represents "the smallest complete x86 mainboard in the industry," Via said...