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Powerful PC + 6 Monitors = 1 Low Power Classroom.

Userful Software and 6 VGA Ports Allows 6 Simultaneous Users to Run Ubuntu.

Just 12 Watts and £120 ($90) Per User.

£720 (ex VAT, £828 including VAT).

In Stock.

Features

Revolutionary Approach to Classrooms and Internet Cafes

The premise of the U6 is simple: take a powerful PC, load it up with video cards and Userful’s Multiplier software and then you can share that server with 6 simultaneous users. That way you get a “per seat” cost of just £70 and power consumption of just 17 Watts. Cheaper and more energy efficient than using stand alone PCs.

Exceptional and Dynamic Performance

The U6 is powered by the new X2 250 processor from AMD: 2 x 3.0 GHz. That’s paired with 3 Nvidia video cards and 4GB of high-speed RAM. All that horsepower translates to snappy performance even with 6 users at the same time. And if just 3 or even 2 users are on the U6, they benefit from extraordinary performance that wouldn’t be possible with individual thin clients or netbooks.

Includes Licenses, Hubs, and Cables

The U6 comes with 6 Userful Multiplier Licenses (cost $59 each) that we pre-install and activate for you. And we include 6 Userful-branded Hubs that sit beneath each monitor and offer 3 USB ports as well as Audio In/Out, as well as 3 VGA extension cables, and 3 DVI to VGA adapter cables. Everything you need for set up.

The Ubuntu (or Edubuntu) You Know and Love

Userful Multiplier runs on top of Ubuntu (or Edubuntu). So the OS those 6 students or kiosk users are accessing is the world’s favourite distribution of Linux: Ubuntu 9.04.

Just 90 Watts

Thanks to all those video cards, the U6 is going to use a lot of power. But thanks to an energy efficient CPU and a laptop hard drive, we’ve managed to keep it at 90W, which is less than a typical HP or Dell office PC serving one user. With the ability to support 6 simultaneous users, the U6 is extremely energy efficient.

Express Shipping from £10. Fixed rate per order.

We don’t want to punish customers for ordering more than one PC from us – order as many products as you like, and pay a fixed shipping rate.

We ship exlusively with UPS. Next Day to UK (£10), 2 Day to Europe (£25), US and Canada (£35), and Asia and Oceania (£50).

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Despite supporting 6 Users, the U6 is the size of a standard Small Form Factor office PC. It’s not even a full-size tower. That keeps shipping costs to remote areas low.

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Note the 3 Video Cards on the right-hand side. Onboard video is disabled as the Nvidia cards produce better performance. Each U6 is supplied with 3 x 2 meter DVI to VGA cables that let you connect standard VGA monitors to the DVI ports.

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Specs

U6 Hardware Specs

Dimensions: 35.6 x 39.1 x 18.9 mm (Length x Depth x Height)

Weight: 7.0kg

CPU: AMD Athlon X2 250. 2 x 3.0GHz (65W), 1MB L2 Cache

Chipset: AMD 760G Northbridge

Memory: 4GB (2×2GB) DDR2 1066Mhz Kingston Memory Unbuffered CL5 Dual Channel, Optional 4 x 2GB

Optical Drive: SATA DVD-RW 20X Dual Layer, +/-, DVD Reader.

Ethernet:1 x Realtek RTL8111C Gigabit LAN

Graphics Support: 1080i and 1080p and HDCP, Microsoft DirectX 10, H.264, VC1 and Mpeg-2 video decode, Blu-ray playback

Audio: Realtek ALC662 6-Channel HD Audio CODEC w/ SPIF in and out

Front I/O: 2 x USB 2.0 Ports, Audio In/Out. DVD-RW

Rear I/O: 6 x USB 2.0 Ports, 1 x RJ45 Ports, Audio In, Audio Out, VGA Port, DVI Port, PS/2 Port. Onboard VGA and DVI Port are Disabled for Compatibility Reasons.

Additional Rear I/O: 3 x VGA Ports, 3 x DVI Ports (Supplied with DVI to VGA 2M Cable Adapters). Effective total is 6 VGA Ports.

Hard Drive Details (80GB):SATA-II 7200RPM 2.5″ Hard Drive. 2W Power Consumption

Solid State Drive Details (64GB):SATA-II Kingston V-Series SSDNow 2.5″ SSD. Write Speed of 80MB/s. Read Speed of 100MB/s. 1W Power Consumption

Power Consumption: 80W idle, 110W peak.

Motherboard: Asus M3A76-CM

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A U6 in use in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. September, 2009. 3 Students simultaneously use Ubuntu via one PC.

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