VIA ARTiGO Pico-ITX Builder Kit A1000 - C7 1 GHz

Advantages: Mini with many features
Disadvantages: poor floating point

...C. It boots a full copy of windows XP Pro in 43 seconds and boots windows embedded in cleanly under 30 seconds. -------------------------------------------------------------- Specifications -------------------------------------------------------------- The device itself is a mini-itx motherboard as such it is 17cm by 17cm in area. However the device is stuffed full of extra bits and bobs as shown below; Processor VIA C3™/ VIA Eden™ EBGA processor 1300MHz Chipset VIA CN400 North Bridge VIA VT8237 South Bridge System Memory 1 DDR266/333/400 DIMM socket Up to 1GB memory size VGA Integrated VIA UniChrome™ Pro AGP graphics with MPEG-2 decoder /MPEG-4 Accelerator IDE / SATA (For Hard drives or Optical drives) 2 X UltraDMA 133/100 Connector 2 SATA Connectors Onboard devices VIA VT6103 10/100 Base-T Ethernet PHY VIA VT1617A 6... Read review

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Advantages: Very affordable and understaderble.
Disadvantages: DVD Rewriter would have been nice.

...This was my first laptop, i needed something that i could work on durring my degree course away from the kids. As the desk top P.C. had more games on it than anything else I thought i should upgrade myself, and i dont think i will ever look back. It's a FUJITSU SIEMENS AMILO L7300 and as i have always like siemens products i was attracted to this laptop stright away, and what a bonus to get it for £400. I bought mine from COMET in Oxford about eight months ago and have since seen them in other shops such as CURRYS and TESCO and they are also going for around the £400 mark. OK heres some of the tekkie stuff for those out there that understand it: Processor - Intelceleron M with 1.3 GHz or 1.4 GHz or 1.5 GHz Main Memory - 1 Gbyte DDR333 SO DIMM (PC2700) Plus 2 slots free for extension Disk Drives - 1 hard disk and 1 CD/DVD drive LCD... Read review

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Advantages: Small, Compact, Modern and High Performance
Disadvantages: No Room to Expand

...This Product is of great value with the latest technology dual core cpu and high memory ideal for family computer or home theatre system, this product is very cheap to buy and is one of the smallest computers on the market so can be stored away or on display as is a very modern piece of kit, this mini mac can be used on a traditional mac monitor or conected straight to your television, with high performance graphics ideal for playing games and watching movies this computer is a must buy, my only bad experiance withthis product is that there is not much room to expand the capabillities of this machine in the future but is of high performance anyway so no really a problem.... Read review

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