[News] Photos of the A1-Lite | ANN.lu |
Posted on 18-Sep-2003 17:43 GMT by Peter Gordon | 115 comments View flat View list |
Soft3 have posted images of the new Mini-ITX formfactor AmigaONE Lite.
You can see them here!
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Posted by petr krenzelok on 20-Sep-2003 07:58 GMT | In reply to Comment 106 (Peter Gordon): Just don't depreciate VIA. I had some talk with their marketing person, and they seem to understand the spirit of community. They even invited few of most successfull mods to be part of their booth.
VIA Mini-ITX means several versions - embedded system - two ethernets, four serial ports, CF reader, direct DC converter on-board etc., while e.g. media version means dolby 5.1 (next it will be hopefully Envy 7.1), USB2, FireWire, TV-OUT (enhanced version in next-generation hopefully too (1622 chip)).
VIA has very good VT8237 south-bridge too (not used in mini-itx afaik yet though). I think the company has potential.
And remember - they do own S3 .... does anyone believe in return of S3 gfx? I did not, but read news on http://www.viaarena.com ... interesting, I think that it will be cool to see those on upcoming mini-itx boards integrated.
So - if someone is for small form factor, they should provide nice media and connectivity options -
- 10/100 Ethernet (or two)
- USB2.0 definitely - releasing 1.0 family these days is bad joke
- dolby 5.1 as well as is bad joke stereo only AC'97
- fire-wire
- TV-OUT, DVD playback support in hw (as VIA has)
- FastATA or at least ATA133
- decent memory support
- wireless
- the PC should be quiet
I can imagine such PC being an A1200 replacement .... I currently own Nehemiah M10000 board and am going to build small, silent PC, for browsing the web, watching movies, listening to mp3s ...
I think that the trend, at least for home multimedia is clear - small, nice looking, silent, + connectivity (wireless option)
cheers,
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