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Computers are getting smaller and smaller. Can you think of circumstances where a pico motherboard would be beneficial? Do you or your organization have uses for a pico board like the EPIA-P910.
While I understand this size mobo may be a nitch market and thus short runs of this type unit drives up cost, it's too pricey for the weekend PC builder.
how about about in high end boats,planes, busses. i can think of a whole lot of places. come on lots of places other than on a desktop. It's small form factor alows for placement just about any where you would not want a destop takeing up space.
As others have said the options are endless. This could take the Smart TV's in a whole new direction!
I'm in K12 and this would be nice if someone would put it in a box to hang off the back of a monitor. The appropriate length cables would sell me completely on it. I don't need an optical drive or much more than what Windows needs as far as storage. I am paying $350 for recycled SFF dual-core desktops with 60GB SSDs. I'd be willing to go to $450 new per machine for the kind of power and footprint the Pico is offering.
Specifically ripped Blu Rays, with audio reduced to mediocre quality 2 channel. Very different from 1080p streaming. I have a large library of ripped blu ray movies, and would like to build a new, smaller HTPC, but need something I know will be a solid, stutterless, liquid smooth performer without a hiccup; and I know that ripped stereo-blu ray files require more out of the graphics than streaming 1080p youtube. If you could comment on how it would play, say an Avatar blu ray rip, that would be awesome! Thanks!
I'd say as long as you stick with efficient codecs like h.264 "High Profile" MP4 format, the VIA hardware should do just fine. Mind you, this based on my limited usage to date and I haven't tried others formats, but I honestly don't see it choking on the media unless you want to play something bitrate intense like 4K video.
When are these sheep going to wake-up and stop using that bloat ware called Windows??
I was a fan of the VIA miniboards until I found that they don't support Linux very well so now I use Intel Atom boards for my 1U servers and embedded systems. When is this going to change?
I sadly have to agree with you on that. The driver support for Linux is simply not there. The ChromotionHD drivers from VIA aren't even KMS drivers, meaning they aren't going to really work well with modern Linux distros past the 2.6.xx kernel series ever since UMS was given the boot.
While not a pico board, I can confirm this atom based mini board (I built for personal use) works beautifully as a web server, email server and DNS server, all running Debian Linux.
Furthermore, it runs at about 25w (including the power brick) and is silent.
http://soslug.org/wiki/lunchbox_server and you can see how it was built.
Furthermore, it runs at about 25w (including the power brick) and is silent.
http://soslug.org/wiki/lunchbox_server and you can see how it was built.
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