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Silent computer for low intensity tasks

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Lifer
Looking to assemble or buy a silent computer that's mainly going to be a print server, so processor performace isn't too important. I've seen some cheap, fanless Atom-based boards on Amazon but I'm not sure what to do about power supplies. Alternatively I was wondering if anyone could recommend a cheap silent laptop or other computing device (NUC?) that I could put Ubuntu on for such tasks?
 
If it's really just a print server and you're feeling adventurous, you could go with a Beaglebone Black. It is fanless, less than 2.5 Watts power consumption, and supports Ubuntu.

At Adafruit you can get one with case and power supply for $65.
 
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Deleted. Noticed you primarily wanted to built a PC for print serving.
 
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Raspberry Pi probably can't support regular Ubuntu, but it does run distros built for ARM, such as Raspian. Your printers are USB? Or are they old workhorses that run off of parallel ports?
 
Maybe I'm wrong but whenever I see the print spooler counting up hundred's of MB sent to the printer I don't think "Hmmm I wish an atom was doing this RIP instead of my quad core i7..." Maybe just windows is terrible at print queuing?
 
Torn Mind said:
Raspberry Pi probably can't suppoI regular Ubuntu, but it does run distros built for ARM, such as Raspian. Your printers are USB? Or are they old workhorses that run off of parallel ports?
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The printer is USB. I know Ubuntu 12.04 can print from it. I don't know about the ARM version though.
 
I think I've a solution. I have an E-450 based laptop that wife has deemed quiet enough for such purposes.
 
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