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[W1nTry]

I have always been a fan of Via and things like this remind me of why:

Via launches baby-ITX

An x86 in your jacket pocket

By Wily Ferret: Friday 20 April 2007, 10:39
WHILE we've questioned the future direction of Via in these pages previously, there's no doubting that its new Pico-ITX form factor is pretty impressive.

Playing on its strength of manufacturing low-power x86 CPUs, Pico-ITX is smaller than the Nano-ITX form factor it has been pushing over the last year or so, which itself is smaller than the Mini-ITX form factor that has become popular amongst modding enthusiasts and those building embedded machines.

The Via motherboard, dubbed the VT6047 reference board, is a mere 72mmx100mm, making it barely bigger than a credit card. Forget the online digital wallet, this could make your wallet digital!

The board has outputs for network and VGA, with graphics delivered by the UniChrome built-in graphics. The main CPU socket is compatible with either the Via C7 or Eden chips up to 1.5GHz. Audio is provided by Via's Vinyl Audio code, with a pin header provided for wiring up physical sockets. A single SATA port and single IDE port provide the I/O capabitilies, whilst a single SO-DIMM socket supports up to 1GB of DDR2-533.

Providing Via can put this out at a decent price point - no word on that yet - this could become an awesome device that could push forward a new range of UMPC devices. Any takers? µ

[Spazosaurus]

Vey nice indeed considerably smaller than Apple's mini's...and quite powerful as well. If there was like one off those flash hdd's that you can somehow plug directly into the motherboard and even attach a 3 or 3.5 inch screen somewhere....hmmmmm...can you say poket pc replacement?