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 ;)

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Re:I'd love to build a new PC...

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In various books and movies you see scenarios where there are computers everywhere, rather than just a special computer somewhere in the house/building/spaceship/whatever. One of the key things you have to do to reach that point is to get computers with decent performance (I'd say Pentium-M adequately fills that description), that run quietly. That's important: if you can't have it run passively cooled, the noise is going to be terrible. Now, just think of the uses of something like this if we can put it together with a quiet storage medium (non-volatile ram sounds good, but I'd settle for anything that lets me get a few gigs quietly).

TiVo alternatives are fun to think about, as are affordable internet kiosks, digital imaging boxes, and basically anything that could use a full-fledged computer.