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Pentium-M In Mini-ITX Format
Hektor_Troy writes "A German outfit is going to introduce a Pentium-M based mini-ITX board. Finally good performance in a small size. The manufacturer claims it can be cooled pasively, but I'd like to see it first." "Good performance in a small size" is relative, of course -- I like the quiet little EPIA system in front of me pretty well ;)
I love making very small computers to bring along to lan parties. It makes me salivate to think that one day, very soon, I'll bring a 3 GHZ P4 to a lan party, in a package I can carry in one hand! Very smart move.
And why did you staple the trout to the RAM?
That's all well and good, but for it to be really nifty, it needs an AGP slot. I mean, a PCI or integrated video card might be "good enough" for most things, but what if I want to game with it?
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Interestingly enough Pentium M MHz per MHz is faster than the Pentium 4.
Not that interesting. The regular P3, which the Pentium-M is based on, was also faster, clock for clock. The Athlon certainly is. But the very things that cause this (a really long pipeline and some other stuff I've forgotten) are what allow it to scale to the high clock speeds it can. For a while after the P4 came out it was widely thought to be a failure because of those trade-offs, but then they ramped it up to faster clock speeds and more software came out taking advantage of SSE2.
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"Good performance in a small size" is relative, of course -- I like the quiet little EPIA system in front of me pretty well ;)
Most of the new Pentium M laptops are mostly passive cooled. I can barely hear the fan on my friends laptop when it does kick in.
Why doesn't someone make a Mini-ITX case for this board, that comes with a laptop style cooler and has a small slit on the side of the case as an exhaust, just like a laptops?