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Atom-Based Mini-ITX Motherboard Available

Posted by kdawson on from the small-is-beautiful dept.

LWATCDR writes "A company out of the UK is selling an Intel Atom-based Mini-ITX motherboard. It has a riser for two PCI cards, two SATA ports, and an IDE ports so it could make a great little NAS, firewall, MAME box, or low-power workstation. To add to the fun it has a real parallel port 'perfect for hardware hacking,' a real RS-232 port 'perfect for data acquisition,' and two USB ports. The price is around $100, give or take, and hopefully it will come down over time. All in all a nice system to run Linux, WindowsXP, BSD, or maybe even OpenSolaris on."

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  1. Atom-based? That's small! by YouWantFriesWithThat · · Score: 5, Funny

    I could sniff a line of them and have a LAN in my sinus cavity!

  2. Serial AND Parallel by simonbp · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow, it has a serial and a parallel port! That's great! Now I can hook up both my MS serial bus mouse AND my dot-matrix printer; I'll be in Windows 3.1 heaven!

    1. Re:Serial AND Parallel by TheQuantumShift · · Score: 4, Funny

      You may even be able to install one of those new fangled three dee accelerator cards in that PCI slot! Sounds like a bunch of voodoo to me though...

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  3. Re:Atom-based? That's small! by ichthyoboy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Pfffft...I'm waiting for the quark-based boards, but only if Nvidia releases an open-source driver to resonate my video strings!

  4. Re:Media Box? by Runefox · · Score: 4, Funny

    Video cards have IP addresses now?

    That said, the Radeon HD 3450 would be great for that, if only that was a PCI-E slot. A Radeon 9250 or GeForce 6200 is about the most you'll get in PCI nowadays though...

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  5. Re:Atom-based? That's small! by FooAtWFU · · Score: 1, Funny

    Hey, my motherboard is made of atoms too!

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  6. Re:Atom-based? That's small! by nacturation · · Score: 2, Funny

    I hear Nostrildamus builds beowulf clusters of those down at the ol'factory.

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  7. Re:RS-232!! by quenda · · Score: 2, Funny

    A USB dongle is not the same as a genuine RS-232 port. You are right. A REAL RS232 port needs a genuine 8-bit 4.77 MHz ISA bus. None of this new-fangled junk.