Re: Smallest possible PC components?

[Steven Edgar <yahoogroups@xxxxxxx>]

I think your smallest option right now would be a mini-itx board in one of
the
Travla C134 cases, which are about the size of a car stereo head unit.

You can find them on this site

http://linitx.com/shop/product_info.php/cPath/8/products_id/263

or

http://www.mini-itx.com/store/default.asp?c=3

I can heartily recommend the former site, they have fantastic customer
service, but they specialise in Linux rather than windows (which suits me
fine!). I have used the latter on occasion with no cause for complaint, but
they don't have any memory you could use in the case, whereas linitx do.


Steven

On Friday 02 January 2004 22:44, Paul Gordon wrote:
> Hi peeps.
>
> I want to start putting together the smallest possible PC to live in
the
> kitchen, so obviously I'm looking at the mini-itx stuff....
>
> I have a few questions though...
>
> Wasn't there mention recently of something even smaller? - is any such
> format available yet?
>
> What's currently the "best" fanless option? - is it the VIA
EPIA CL6000 or
> the VIA EPIA ME6000?..
> the "CL" appears to have a slightly faster CPU (677 as
opposed to 600 on
> the "ME"), and both appear to have the integrated MPEG
decoder... much of
> the rest of the spec appears to be similar, except the CL has 2 x LAN
> ports, whereas the ME has 1 x LAN plus 1 x Firewire.. - the latter
would be
> more useful to me, but not crucially so... I wonder just how much a
> difference of a mere 77MHz would make in practice though? (It will be
> running XP Pro)
>
> Just about to start researching the small cases, - anyone got any
> thoughts/opinions on the cubid or Travla ranges? - is there anything
> available off-the-shelf that's even smaller?...
>
> Note, that I have no requirement for an internal optical drive of any
> description, nor a floppy, nor any LCD/VFD screens.... I have a couple
of
> 2.5" laptop HDD's available, everything else can be external via
USB...  I
> also don't need to accomodate a PCI slot
>
> Greatfull for any thoughts & opinions...
>
> TIA
>
> Paul G.
>
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