Smallest possible PC components?

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>]

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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