VIA EPIA mini-ITX motherboard + case?

William Park opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org
Fri Dec 17 03:06:32 UTC 2004


On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 08:28:24PM -0500, Henry Spencer wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, William Park wrote:
> > Thanks Paul.  I'm exploring building a thin-client using Via's
> > mini-ITX.  As usual, commodity PC has changed the equation.  Network
> > boot (PXE), CDROM boot, and other ways of implementing thin-client
> > made sense in the past.  But, with USB key drive, you can now just
> > boot from USB keydrive, and away you go.  100% solid-state machine
> > at that.
> 
> Getting rid of the disk is the easy part -- that's been practical for
> some time now with CompactFlash cards and CF-IDE adapters.  The hard
> part of going 100% solid state is getting rid of the cooling fans. 

Purely from the specs, VIA mini-ITX is about 10W max.  I should be able
to get away with removing fan in the power supply.
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