Re: [OT] VIA's Mobile ITX board

["Paul Bendall" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kinda of agree and disagree. VIA produce very low power consuming
CPU's
which are ideal for Node0 which is on 24x7 in a residential house. For
me CPU power is not essential, although a 2GHz version would be nice.
Power, noise and heat are my main concerns.

However, 1GB of RAM is low these days if you are trying to run more
than a few applications, a 2GB or preferably 4GB version would be much
better.

Finally, I haven't even heard of any rumours of 64bit version of the
boards which for me is an issue as MS products are now starting to ship
64bit only (I am aware not everyone will need 64bit)

Paul

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Andy Davies" <dajdavies@...> wrote:
>
> I'd agree, if people want form factors smaller than ITX, there are
plenty of
> options in the embedded market - 3.5", EBX, PC/104 etc.
>
> I wonder how much the smaller form factors are distracting them. Take
the
> VIA EPIA EX15000G, on paper looks like a nice board for a media pc,
DVI out,
> phono sockets for audio etc., but form the reviews it doesn't seem to
have
> enough oomph to vide well. Surely they'd have been better building
the board
> with an Intel or AMD CPU instead.
>
> Andy