Robert Van den Heuvel
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Posted: Nov. 03 2003,07:53 |
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I run DSL from the ITX platform with a fanless VIA Cyrix CPU @ 533 MHz and it is sweet. No fans, no moving parts, and virtually no power consumption. My case is around the size of a long, flat cigar box but I am miniaturizing further still. Some people have built these systems to resemble a CD-ROM drive in size!
Even more exciting to us nerds is the news (from mini-itx.com two weeks ago) that VIA has just superceded (but not discontinued!) the mini-ITX form factor with the NANO-ITX form factor. Motherboards conforming to NANO-ITX are approx 4.7" square including built-in video, sound, network, USB, serial ports.
With one of the optionally available 50W AC adaptors/power supplies, I imagine you could pack your entire NANO-ITX system into a Nintendo GameCube chassis. Or perhaps even a half-height CD-R spindle container. Add a few glowing LEDs... and it would look real, real cool in the dark.
But I think the ultimate smallness can be had from older Toshiba Libretto laptops with their LCD displays and batteries removed for savings of weight. Such machines weigh less than a pound and will fit in a coat or pants pocket with room to spare. This is my next project, having already done this with an IBM laptop quite successfully. It makes a great network sniffer!
Vive les small computadoras!
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