New Nano-ITX 12cm Motherboards

Kris_J writes "mini-itx.com have exclusive pictures of VIA's new 12cm x 12cm motherboard standard they're terming 'Nano-ITX'. VIA have removed the legacy ports, moved to mini-PCI and SODIMMs and now a new batch of custom PC projects can be produced where previously there wasn't quite enough room for the motherboard. I already have an idea..."

Government doing the right thing for once...

[Bame Flait]

VIA have removed the legacy ports, moved to mini-PCI and SODIMMs

Good thing Sodimmy is no longer illegal.

Ah-ha!

[tds67]

VIA have removed the legacy ports, moved to mini-PCI and SODIMMs...

So that's where Sodimm Hussein has been hiding! It's now the mother of all boards!

Woohoo!

[CausticWindow]

Now I can make that ammo canister pc come true. I could even make Linux run on my MP5!.

Or what about using a US marines trooper helmet as a webserver! Or maybe I can equip a clip with a fileserver.

W00t. My Death/Linux dreams have finally come true.

Re:Drive bay mounting?

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

12 by 12 centimeters (120 millimeters) is the same size as a CD... I wonder if one could squeeze one of these machines into one or two drivebays

File the corners and punch a hole in the middle : you won't even have to replace the original CDROM drive to fit in inside your PC.

Re:Call the office for fair trading!

[Doesn't_Comment_Code]

1 centimeter = 1x10^-2m, 1 nanometer = 1x10^-9m.

FALSE ADVERTISING.


But they never specified their units. They only used the prefix nano. But they never said nano-whats. Their unit of distance could be root acres, or astronomical units, or in this case, the unit of measurement is 12cm*10^9

Heh heh, the devil is in the details my friend.

Slashdotted...

[jargoone]

I got a connection refused when trying to connect. Here's an ASCII-art mirror of the motherboard:


[]


Man, that's small!

Size doesn't matter....

[Anonymous Coward]

It's not the size of the MoBo, it's what you do with it...

Sorry, someone had to say it:P

Re:Bring back the serial port!

[ikkonoishi]

The fun part comes when the only way to get data off a computer is to hook a serial port up to a usb adapter up to a firewire adapter up to a cyber-link to your brain up to the vast alien mind net in order to play pong with our new alien over lords in the year 30001!

Now that is the ultimate hack.

Re:VIA eh

[Tisephone]

Yeah! Everyone knows a CPU's quality is directly proportional to the amount of heat it dissipates. And you can't even soft-boil an egg on a C3, let alone fry one... what a piece of junk.

Can't wait for the Prescott!

Re:Bring back the serial port!

[Anonymous Coward]

Really, for embedding things like this KISS will save you work in the long run.

Maybe back in the 70's, but nowadays, they're just money-grubbing whores who won't save you shit.

Re:more info

[NFN_NLN]

the 1ghz mini-itx boards don't passively cool without gluing on a Zalman flower heatsink

Does this mean the heat sink will take up more volume than the actual motherboard?

Wrong font size

[bluGill]

Nice ascii art, but the font size is wrong leading me to get a wrong impression of the size. However it is easy to convert. There are by definition 2.54 cm to an inch, so the 12cm board = 4.72 inches - lets round that to the nearest quarter = 4.75. By definition there are 72 point to the inch, so you need to adjust your browser to a 342 point font. Note that I'm assume that your monitor properly scales fonts to actual size, odds are it does not (generally only macs try, and not all of them get it right), but that is implimentation specific.

I rounded the inches measurement up a little because in most fonts [] does not take up all the pixels it could, and thus isn't exact size. I'm hoping this adjustment brings us to a better average. (likely width still a little small, hight a little big)

Not so good!

[FrostedWheat]

You might loose your computer down the back of the sofa!

The BEST line from the article:

[Asprin]

The BEST line from the article:

"Click on a picture to enlarge it - probably beyond life size..."

Re:Bring back the serial port!

[Directrix1]

Are you talking about a computer or your sex life?

correction

[GunFodder]

SPDIF can be transmitted optically over Toslink fiber optic cable or electrically over RCA coaxial cable. Real professionals prefer AES/EBU transmitted over balanced XLR cables.