News VIA announces Pico-ITX

the result of geek porn (me wants one too)

 

can anyone say really really tiny media center pc!!!

 

First to make a palm/pocket sized HTPC wins!

 

This is really cool. I found some more pics here.

http://mini-itx.com/2007/01/26/more-epia-px-pictures

This has sooooooo much modding potential.

 

I am seriously thinking of getting one, depends on the price and the cash I have. Hmm, maybe integrate it into my Hi-Fi, so you don't have to use the HTPC (When I build it)
Seriously thinking of getting one.
I know, battery, pico, SSD, backpack.
Or, I wonder how much free space there is inside my stereo...

 

You could get an LCD monitor remove the back mod this and a laptop battery in and you have one cool mobile PC not practical but cool.

 

Although it's been done before and quite recently too, I'm waiting for the keyboard PC

I really like this board but by the time you build a complete system it grows quite a bit, especially for a media center since you'd want at least one 3.5" hard drive for storage (well, that's what I'd use because of capacity & cost).

Searching the linked Linux devices though I found this: (link), now that's exactly what I'd buy if I could get it at a reasonable price and from a Canadian (because I'm in Canada) distributer. Slap in a core 2 duo, 2GB ram, and a 7600gt or 8600 when those come out and

 

oh oh oh I like.

I've been looking at small form factor boards with great interest since I discovered the T-amp amplifier... I'm dying to get a couple & build a serious HDD-based, networked micro system (since I'm currently sharing my small living area with a full racked seperates system as my only noise-maker).

This looks absolutely ideal... I'm in lust.

 

They already have DIN slot PCs with Mini-ITX (not even Pico-ITX). You could probably fit the whole headunit, amp and all in a DIN enclosure with that thing!!!.

 

the only thing they need to create now is an lcd as thin as a paper that can get rooled up. Since we have rolled up keyboards and mouse arent that hard to pack along then by that time i would say lan gaming would be pretty easy... lol but the processors and all the other bits have to shrink as well which i dont see happening

 

Definately potential for a car-radio PC! One that actually fits into a din slot, too!

 

DIN?

most cars can fit doube DIN now man! my focus has double DIN size radio though at the moment the OEM radio is in the cupboard and a DIN sized sony is in its place..... the cover to cover the second DIN sized gap is abit unsightly.

now imagine some how gutting the OEM radio, fitting a quality amp circuit and this little thing with a 2.5inch Solid State drive and a 4-5 inch TFT

if you can some how hide a USB dongle somewhere..... you can get a wireless track ball for your own kinda iDrive lol!

 

Can you say render farm in a Micro ATX sized case?? lol

 

Looks nice!

 

Maybe its built in. You can see the IDE pins clear on Mini ITX website. Shame no SATA

You Tube Vid here

 

Had same thought - MythTV frontend

 

Name: VIA EPIA PX
Processor: VIA C7 1.0GHz
Memory: 1 DDR2 533 SODIMM socket, up to 1GB
VGA: Integrated VIA UniChrome Pro II 3D/2D AGP graphics, with MPEG-2/4 and WMV9 decoding acceleration
IDE: 1 UltraDMA connector
SATA: 1 SATA connector
LAN: 1 VIA VT6106S 10/100 ethernet
Audio: VIA VT1708A Hi-Definition Audio Codec
I/O: 4 USB 2.0, 1 COM, 1 PS2, 1 LVDS/DVI, 1 multimedia for TV/out, 1 audio for line-out/line-in, mic-in, optical-in, and 7.1 channel output, RJ-45 LAN, VGA




So, yeah, it's a single so-dimm slot, presumably on the bottom of the board.

 

This intregues me.

I bought a Via 13000 board in the past thinking I could use it for an HTPC but it was seriously underpowered.
DVD playback etc was a nightmare.

It has MPEG acceleration but only if your software supports it, which hardly anything did.
MythTV, Mediaportal etc didn't.

I'd like to get one of these for my carPC I intend on building.
I drive a Ford and as mentioned earlier, it's about triple-din size so plently of room.
But if I were to use some software like centrafuse, would it be powerful enough?

That's my concern. :s

 

Wolfe, can I have a link to where you got that information? I've not seen definitive specs anywhere, it would be good to have a reference.

 

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