Pico-ITX at CES 2007

[mariologoin]

this is not pico-ITX!!!! this is the nano-ITX!!!!

[thfmadmax]

SHOW the top of the board not just the IO side!!!!!!

[8309400]

theyre starting to make attractive gamer case mods for nano and mini itx. A ruff power estimate, a gamer rig with 2gig sodimm ram a ati mobility video card and intel ssd and youd have a gamer rig with a TDP that dont go over 60 watts in full load, unless you have a quad core. nonetheless im sure we can get gamer nano itx pc to get an energy star rating

mobility cards take around 25/30 watts in full load rather than 300 watts for usual atx cards and you get the same performance.

[8309400]

I sincerely beleive the new efficient gamer desktop pc should become soon nano itx with ssd drives (as OS drives), sodimm ram and mobility video cards you can buy as descrete parts you could even chose an atom cpu or a quad core depending on what set up youre after. nano itx would be almost same as ATX but without the desolating powerbill has fanatastic idle power states and no instability and heat issues plus its a fanless pc its modern and a real space saver just like lcds

[monkeyman1140]

Why doesn't VIA shrink down the plugs too and use adaptor cables?

[jnnycliff]

SF is not a free wireless City... yet!

[xxwzaebd]

Great..however, VIA processors definitely need a superscalar architecture which is mainstream now. This is necessary for competition with coming chips like the Merom ULV or even multicore embedded RISC chips.

[okdewit]

Sweet :)

Hobby-robot-builders will be happy with this kind of stuff.

[blueboar1986]

oh yea... especially those crappy controllers cost arms and legs.

[rfengr]

you are missing one major key differentiator ..power consumption!. Remember, most robots operate on batteries, so not unless you can have a pico-equivalent battery solution, you will need a really huge battery to run this board for an hour perhaps.