Reply To: Using EyeX with OSX by using WindowsVM or separate Windows machine

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@Mark Castle, that is inspiring to hear!

I’m worried about overburdening my MBA; I am running out of SSD and sometimes the fan goes crazy. How much load does the Virtual Windows + EyeX server put on your MacBook Pro? Is there any simple way of quantifying that? Maybe just RAM and %CPU…

As regards the other solution path, I’m struggling to find a really small form factor Windows machine that supports USB3. There is a bunch of products with roughly the same form factor as an old Mac Mini, which I will call miniPC and a bunch of much smaller ones that look like a USB dongle which I will call microPC.

MicroPC-s tends to only support USB2:

– http://www.pcworld.com/article/2911098/computers/mini-pc-invasion-10-radically-tiny-computers-that-fit-in-the-palm-of-your-hand.html#slide9
– http://www.pcworld.com/article/2911098/computers/mini-pc-invasion-10-radically-tiny-computers-that-fit-in-the-palm-of-your-hand.html#slide10
– http://www.pcworld.com/article/2911098/computers/mini-pc-invasion-10-radically-tiny-computers-that-fit-in-the-palm-of-your-hand.html#slide12
– http://www.pcworld.com/article/2911098/computers/mini-pc-invasion-10-radically-tiny-computers-that-fit-in-the-palm-of-your-hand.html#slide11

Although that last one, there is a version 2 coming out soon which will expose a USB3 port:

– http://www.pcworld.com/article/2930917/intels-tiny-compute-stick-pc-could-pack-a-bigger-punch-this-winter.html

The most promising looking contender is much bigger than all of these:

– http://www.pcworld.com/article/2911098/computers/mini-pc-invasion-10-radically-tiny-computers-that-fit-in-the-palm-of-your-hand.html#slide7

I’m hoping to find something really small, so that I can glue it to my LCD.

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