Still remember that VIA was gonna bring us the smallest motherboard in the world? VIA Technologies had introduced the smalltest form factor, Pico-ITX, which measures only 10cm x 7.2cm a few months ago. Here is the first product, the EPIA PX 10000 in VIA’s Pico-ITX line-up. Mini-ITX.com has done a review for this smallest mainboard in the world.
No doubt, its small size and quietness are definitely good for those UMPCs, systems and appliances. But not for those needing high-defination video output. This mainboard will fail if you expect it to power a high-def mini media box, due to the limitation of its 1GHZ CPU, which isn’t capable of running any popular video formats at an acceptable rate above 1024×768. Another short is it fails to work well with Linux, which you’re simply hard to find any compatible drivers for Linux. VIA needs to look into this to produce better support for Linux such as providing a central repository of drivers and also better documentation. This smalltest mainboard also fails to attract manufacturers to produce cases for it, which is mainly due to its limited market. Read more about the review here.
via [Engadget]
June 27th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
Now this is neat, and surprisingly enough, they’ll get even smaller in the next few months or so.
December 16th, 2010 at 8:07 am
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