OESF Forums > A Business Card-sized Motherboard From Via

amrein

Jun 6 2007, 09:01 PM

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Via CEO Wenchi Chen revealed a business card-sized motherboard billed as the "world's first industry-standard form-factor for PC/phone convergence," at Computex today. The "mobile-ITX" board measures 3 x 1.8 inches -- half the size of Via's "pico-ITX" form-factor -- and runs Windows XP Embedded or Linux.
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http://www.windowsfordevices.com/news/NS6249674338.html

Meanie

Jun 6 2007, 09:24 PM

QUOTE(amrein @ Jun 7 2007, 03:01 PM)

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Via CEO Wenchi Chen revealed a business card-sized motherboard billed as the "world's first industry-standard form-factor for PC/phone convergence," at Computex today. The "mobile-ITX" board measures 3 x 1.8 inches -- half the size of Via's "pico-ITX" form-factor -- and runs Windows XP Embedded or Linux.
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http://www.windowsfordevices.com/news/NS6249674338.html

how can you compare a motherboard to a Zaurus. its like saying that milk is better than wine...

adf

Jun 6 2007, 09:29 PM

QUOTE(Meanie @ Jun 7 2007, 05:24 AM)

QUOTE(amrein @ Jun 7 2007, 03:01 PM)

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Via CEO Wenchi Chen revealed a business card-sized motherboard billed as the "world's first industry-standard form-factor for PC/phone convergence," at Computex today. The "mobile-ITX" board measures 3 x 1.8 inches -- half the size of Via's "pico-ITX" form-factor -- and runs Windows XP Embedded or Linux.
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http://www.windowsfordevices.com/news/NS6249674338.html

how can you compare a motherboard to a Zaurus. its like saying that milk is better than wine...

eeewwwww you make wine out of milk?

Meanie

Jun 6 2007, 09:32 PM

QUOTE(adf @ Jun 7 2007, 03:29 PM)

QUOTE(Meanie @ Jun 7 2007, 05:24 AM)

QUOTE(amrein @ Jun 7 2007, 03:01 PM)

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Via CEO Wenchi Chen revealed a business card-sized motherboard billed as the "world's first industry-standard form-factor for PC/phone convergence," at Computex today. The "mobile-ITX" board measures 3 x 1.8 inches -- half the size of Via's "pico-ITX" form-factor -- and runs Windows XP Embedded or Linux.
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http://www.windowsfordevices.com/news/NS6249674338.html

how can you compare a motherboard to a Zaurus. its like saying that milk is better than wine...

eeewwwww you make wine out of milk?

ok, i should had said fruit juice then

arniel

Jun 7 2007, 01:36 AM

QUOTE(amrein @ Jun 7 2007, 05:01 AM)

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Via CEO Wenchi Chen revealed a business card-sized motherboard billed as the "world's first industry-standard form-factor for PC/phone convergence," at Computex today. The "mobile-ITX" board measures 3 x 1.8 inches -- half the size of Via's "pico-ITX" form-factor -- and runs Windows XP Embedded or Linux.
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http://www.windowsfordevices.com/news/NS6249674338.html

If someone could retrofit that into my beloved Psion S5 I'd be a very very happy man...

amrein

Jun 7 2007, 07:14 AM

QUOTE(arniel @ Jun 7 2007, 10:36 AM)

QUOTE(amrein @ Jun 7 2007, 05:01 AM)

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http://www.windowsfordevices.com/news/NS6249674338.html

If someone could retrofit that into my beloved Psion S5 I'd be a very very happy man...

So would I.

gr8ful

Jun 7 2007, 08:41 AM

This seems like the very thing the PocketPenguin developers could possibly run with and create the ultimate Zaurus Killer. Via is definitely making things easier for the do-it-yourselfers to create compact and powerful devices.

Build your own UMPC --> http://www.umpcportal.com/modules/news/art...php?storyid=513

speculatrix

Aug 30 2007, 02:02 PM

well, a big flurry of UMPCs and now MIDs, but still no rival to the Zaurus!