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[Giles Orr]

On 6 February 2013 08:06, Anthony de Boer <adb-SACILpcuo74 at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 08:47:23PM -0500, Anthony de Boer wrote:
>> > Note also that the latest Intel thing about them getting out of the
>> > traditional desktop-board racket is not because desktops are dead, but
>> > rather that the ATX form factor is a huge waste of real estate: Intel can
>> > do all it wants to do for a high-end machine on a four-inch-square board
>> > nowadays.  And that's only about double the size of a Pi.
>>
>> The memory and cpu sockets alone take more than that on a high end intel.
>> 8 DDR3 slots and a 2011 pin cpu socket takes some space.  And of course
>> any high end machine would want at least one PCIe x16 slot for a video
>> card (since that is something intel certainly doesn't know how to do yet).
>
> I was quoting from recollection of:
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/24/intel_exits_desktop_motherboard_market/
>
> which in turn led to a search that found:
>
> http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/motherboards/desktop-motherboards/next-unit-computing-introduction.html
>
> which certainly look like a couple of sweet wee boards.

The "Next Unit of Computing" comes equipped with "Three external USB
2.0 ports."  Seriously?  USB3 is readily available and three times as
fast.  Accessing a 2TB external HD through a USB2 port is
molasses-in-winter fun.  "Next Unit" implies progress, but all that
seems to have changed is the size ...  Or, depending on how you look
at it, not even that - this is essentially a fat net-top with a better
chip.

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