VIA Epia SP 13000 Review

Nehemiah writes "Epiacenter.com just published a review on the brand-new VIA Epia SP 13000 mini-itx mainboard. It's the first VIA Epia board with the CN400 chipset and, together with the new epiOS Linux distribution that is announced in the review, it seems to have a very good performance during MPEG2/MPEG4 playback."

Comments

Re:Legacy Ports

[Bradee-oh!]

I use standard DB9 rs232 ports as well as parallel ports for all sorts of testing, debugging, and even deployment applications. I've deployed epia boards in energy management systems more than once utilitizing the serial and parallel ports.

Yes i know that you get get usb->serial converters and usb->parallel converters. And for notebook/desktop applications that makes sense. However these boards are obiously not mainstream. They are often used for development/prototyping and for low power applications. The needs for that market are different.

At least that's my take on it. I for one am glad to see not EVERYONE is going "legacy free."