| [News] Photos of the A1-Lite | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 18-Sep-2003 17:43 GMT by Peter Gordon | 115 comments
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Soft3 have posted images of the new Mini-ITX formfactor AmigaONE Lite.
You can see them here!
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| Posted by Anony Maus on 19-Sep-2003 08:46 GMT | In reply to Comment 83 (Sigbjørn Skjæret):
> Where exactly would the required extra chips for that fit on this board?
First USB and Firewire Controller Chips are not really big chips and second the board have two sides. As you can see on this Pentium-M Mini-ITX board ( http://www.epiacenter.de/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=181&mode=&order=0&thold=0 ) it is also possible to use both sides.
I think with Firewire and USB 2 the board is more competitive for digital videorecorder or Multimedia PCs for the living room. But I think for this, digital audio output is also needed. An AmigaOne Lite with this features and with a good price have good chances. It can still be a little, but not too much, more expensive as the VIA boards because it have more CPU power and better graphics.
A RAID Chip on the AmigaOne Lite makes the board also more interessting for Mini-Servers. But I think it is difficult to compete against the VIA boards here, because this boards would be much cheaper. For a homeserver I think, Wake On LAN for the integrated Ethernet port would be much more important on the AmigaOne Lite than RAID, because it is nice to switch the homeserver on over the network.
Btw. the RAID controller can also eventually avoid problems with the VIA686b integrated IDE controller, because the IDE controller in the 686b ist simply not used if a IDE RAID Controller is used. |
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