Atom-Based Mini-ITX Motherboard Available

Posted by kdawson on Monday May 19, 2008 @02:28PM 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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nas not really by stokessd · 2008-05-19 14:33 · Score: 4, Informative

I thought it would make a great mini NAS nut it only has a 10/100 nic. That was a bummer

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Intel has a much better board by Yvan256 · 2008-05-19 16:00 · Score: 4, Informative

Intel has a much better board than this, erm, intel motherboard: the Intel D201GLY2A Little Valley Mainboard, 79$ in bulk packaging. And yes, that's a mini-ITX with a serial and parallel port and yes that includes the CPU too, an Intel Celeron 220 1.2 GHz, Conroe-L (65 nm) based on Intel Core microarchitecture.