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Pentium-M In Mini-ITX Format

Posted by timothy on from the oh-be-passive dept.

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 ;)

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  1. Re:Excellent! by El_Ge_Ex · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I love making very small computers to bring along to lan parties.

    I'll see your LAN party and raise you this:

    mini-ITX board + cheap 3d processor + Linux = ???

    Give up? Here's a hint. It makes Microsoft's Xbox Development team shake in their boots.

    -B

    PS What would be more interesting? An Apple Game Console, or an IBM Game Console???

  2. Performance or Utility? by Shturmovik · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Just because they aren't 10GHz Pentium IX's is pretty meaningless for many. The mini-itx thing is a Godsend to some of us.

    I use the EPIA EDEN 533MHz system for the two weather stations on my mountaintop observatory site. They are plenty fast enough, considering all they do is run the weather app and Opera/Eudora/network-clock/antivirus/firewall.

    I don't have AC up here yet, so low power consumption is way more important than beating somebody in a pissing competition over UT2k fps or Photoshop rendering speeds! :-)