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New BTX Form Factor Announced At IDF

Posted by timothy on from the why-does-factor-follow-form dept.

xyote writes "A new motherboard form factor was announced at IDF today. See Google News for various press stories on it (how's that for up to date links?). Also, go here for the actual BTX specs."

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  1. Link to specs by dalleboy · · Score: 5, Informative

    The specs pdf for those whose browser doesn't handle backslashes.

  2. Huh? by elid · · Score: 5, Funny
    BTX will enable the industry to strike a better balance in thermal management, system size and shape, acoustics, and performance -- all critical attributes to innovate desktop PCs for the digital home. (from http://www.dvhardware.net/article.php?sid=1894)

    Gotta love the acoustics of my motherboard. In fact, I do all of my home recording inside while sitting inside my PC box.

  3. New Form Factor, and Easy to break! by -Grover · · Score: 5, Insightful
    From here
    A new technology available from Intel in mid-2004, will help to simplify home networking by including a wireless access point and router functionality as an embedded feature of the PC to help minimize the need for external equipment or cables to build a small home network.

    Maybe I'm just pessimistic, but does anyone want to take a stab at how long it takes for this to turn into a problem?
    1. Re:New Form Factor, and Easy to break! by MouseR · · Score: 5, Funny

      Maybe I'm just pessimistic, but does anyone want to take a stab at how long it takes for this to turn into a problem?

      Well, Longhorn is currently scheduled for 2006, so my guess is ~3 years.

  4. Mirror by Arc04 · · Score: 5, Funny

    That pdf is so slow Here is a mirror.

  5. What we really need by stratjakt · · Score: 5, Insightful

    is not another desktop form factor.

    This is just a neato way to make your old case and PSU obsolete come next upgrade. Hooray!

    At least BabyAT to ATX made some sense, in that it generally relocated the hotter CPUs next to PSU fans, etc...

    What we need is a common laptop form factor. I want to be able to buy an empty laptop chassis/lcd, my own mobo, drive, etc, etc an put one together... While possible, its a major hoof in the noots right now. I want to build a laptop with a trackball and full sized keyboard and not one of those useless touchpads or thumbsticks. I dont care if it's 8 inches wider than Dells junk.

    Etc etc

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