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Pico-ITX, Because Size Matters

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the on-the-head-of-a-pin dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It's not every day that a new form factor comes out, especially not one that is 10cm x 7.2cm. Despite its size, Pico-ITX is the hottest new thing in the rapidly changing small form factor market. It is considerably smaller than Mini-ITX (17cm x 17cm) which has proven itself to be quite versatile and though some sacrifices had to be made to shrink the platform, Pico-ITX is surprisingly complete. The system was tested with Feather Linux but the PX10000 has the power to run Windows XP or Ubuntu if you want to add on a hard drive."

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  1. If size REALLY matters.. by superid · · Score: 4, Informative

    ... then I think I would try Gumstix for non-speed critical apps.

  2. Re:pirce & why not fanless? by SuperQ · · Score: 3, Informative

    I setup a net4801 in a colo rack to route traffic for 20 vlans via 802.1q to a 48 port switch. Durring testing I was able to push 45Mbit of traffic through the system. I've got a couple of net5501's on order.. mostly I wanted more ram/CPU so I could try pushing BGP feeds to the soekris.