World's Smallest Desktop Pentium4?

Valour writes "The Jem Report has just published an in-depth review and installation guide for the new Iwill ZPC, a cool little Pentium4 ultra small formfactor PC. There have been similar designs in the past, but nothing with this kind of power."

Comments

Deflated specs!

[dave_mcmillen]

If you look carefully, you'll note that they use inches and millimeters that are specifically optimized for the Iwill, thus making it appear smaller and lighter than it really is. When will the manufacturers learn that this kind of "cheating" in mass and volume benchmarks isn't really fooling anyone.

slashdotted in 3.2 seconds...

[mess31173]

They were obviously using them as webservers too...

Worlds smallest eh?

[spinlocked]

Is that a desktop or a workstation?

Depressing

[Davak]

Man, is this depressing...

Quake 3 Arena demo 1 FPS: 104.7

The thing is the size of my hand and will do Quake3 twice as fast as my box that take up my whole desktop.

Shheeettt... I must be getting old to have let my box go this long without an overhaul.

Davak

Re:Depressing

[outsider007]

In all likelyhood all this will do is force him to reconsider the decision about bigger being better as noted in all the spam he is ignoring

I think I would rather have a larger penis than a smaller computer.
Besides, if my penis were larger I think my computer would look smaller.

Re:Depressing

[Greedo]

The mental image of you frequently whipping it out to compare it against your computer ...

For your co-workers' sakes, I hope you have cubicles at your office.

eh?

[EMH_Mark3]

A cool Pentium 4?
I really doubt that.

Chilling

[Davak]

The nice thing about a computer this size is that you can just place it in a small refrigator... and then overclock the heck of it.

Plus, you have a nice place to keep your sodas/beer chilled as well.

"Honey, can you take out those leftovers? They are making my computer smell like an italian restaurant!"

Davak

Slashdotted...

[pnix]

I really doubt those P4's are running cool right now since they can't hold up to being slashdotted...

Sure makes me want to buy one!

Should I?

[A_Non_Moose]

Intel:
Imagine a BW cluster of these to make the Intraweb go faster.

Slashdot: /snicker
yeah, right.

The thing is the size of my hand {snip}

Take care you don't burn your...uhhhh....nevermind.

You are on to something!

[Prince_Ali]

They could make it flatter and wider so that they could build the keyboard into it. They probably wouldn't want a mouse dangling so they could add a touch pad below the keyboard. A foldable LCD would be nice, but they could settle for an LCD that is attached to the computer by a hinge, that would fold over the case like a clamshell type thing. Then they could add a battery and really have a winner!

Re:Useful?

[jmaatta]

Ever heard of a laptop? :)

This is an old trick

[L. VeGas]

People have done this for years. You get a real smart midget (like Michael J. Fox) to sit inside the empty box. He's the one actually doing the "computing".

Hey, it's like a cave in here....here....here...

[Asprin]

You know, you could probably fit a whole Beowulf cluster of these inside my now-seemingly-cavernous Shuttle SN41G2 XPC case!

Great Something else to lose...

[mustangsal66]

Ok for the past 10 years, things have been getting smaller and smaller.

I've lost my cell phone, my PDA, my laptop, and god knows what else.

Now I have to worry about losing my desktop???

Is that the worlds smallest desktop pentium 4

[teamhasnoi]

in your pocket, or are you just trying to Slashdot me?

Re:How Loud is it?

[mustangsal66]

A little deflection of moving air and the first hover computer..