Pc potable? can you do it?
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Pc potable? can you do it?
A pc protable would sell fast,maybe....well anyway dose any body think it can work or has it been made? it a question that you dont have to answer.I know i sound like a geek but iam only a newbie to this form.
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There are already a bunch of systems that are portable PCs (though not cheap). They usually run about $2000 or some crap.
Anyway, with a large enough battery and a nano-ITX board you could probably do it... though I think VIA made a mistake when deciding that the nano-ITX shouldn't take simple 5v power (I'm sure just about everything on that board COULD be powered by that if one tried).
Anyway, with a large enough battery and a nano-ITX board you could probably do it... though I think VIA made a mistake when deciding that the nano-ITX shouldn't take simple 5v power (I'm sure just about everything on that board COULD be powered by that if one tried).
I'll say this today you can take a ITX mobo and make something far better then the laptop I have thats from '97. That and I know you can get better batteries to run it, mine does have li-ion but its only 10.8v and ~3 amps (and about the size of the xbox PSU).
I dont see a problem making a portable computer for those or other smaller mobos, the biggest limiting facter I'd say is power. The ITX mobo can be made portable but they were more designed to be small rather then effeciant with power consumption.
Ofcouse I'll contend with all that if I get my hands on a Nano ITX board. I'm sure some of you know I want to build a (near) solid-state computer and put it all in a PSX case (for convieniece).
I dont see a problem making a portable computer for those or other smaller mobos, the biggest limiting facter I'd say is power. The ITX mobo can be made portable but they were more designed to be small rather then effeciant with power consumption.
Ofcouse I'll contend with all that if I get my hands on a Nano ITX board. I'm sure some of you know I want to build a (near) solid-state computer and put it all in a PSX case (for convieniece).
vskid wrote:Nerd = likes school, does all their homework, dies if they don't get 100% on every assignment
Geek = likes technology, dies if the power goes out and his UPS dies too
I am a geek.
I'm currently building a hand held PC, based on a Via chipset, it should have enough grunt to run most of the 8-16bit emulators, and MAME.
The Via Eden 1Ghz processor and Twister chipset kicks out 7-10W of power when it's being thrashed, so if you add a 2.5" hard drive and power supply components you do have a few things to keep cool, but running it off batts is no problem.
I'm using Lithium Polymer cells at the moment to keep the size down,but I may end up just using Lith-ion if I have enough room.
Via have just released a few new Nano-ITX Motherboards, designed for manufacturers, they just have really nice 0.1" and smaller pitch connectors, no big fat PC connectors. And they have the same very powerfull CN400 chipset and Eden Nano BGA 15mm ! CPU's
Check out the pictures -
http://www.mini-itx.com/news/25257596/
Cheers
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The Via Eden 1Ghz processor and Twister chipset kicks out 7-10W of power when it's being thrashed, so if you add a 2.5" hard drive and power supply components you do have a few things to keep cool, but running it off batts is no problem.
I'm using Lithium Polymer cells at the moment to keep the size down,but I may end up just using Lith-ion if I have enough room.
Via have just released a few new Nano-ITX Motherboards, designed for manufacturers, they just have really nice 0.1" and smaller pitch connectors, no big fat PC connectors. And they have the same very powerfull CN400 chipset and Eden Nano BGA 15mm ! CPU's
Check out the pictures -
http://www.mini-itx.com/news/25257596/
Cheers
hand_held
Gannon,
Did u hit refresh ? This model has no heatsink in the picture (Although it will have a big one when they get to production) This is a new Nano-itx, not the same as the one in the mac-mini case a few weeks back. This one is the Epia NL not the Epia N.
Anyway it's going to take Via ages to get this into production, why do they torment us with nice pictures ...
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Did u hit refresh ? This model has no heatsink in the picture (Although it will have a big one when they get to production) This is a new Nano-itx, not the same as the one in the mac-mini case a few weeks back. This one is the Epia NL not the Epia N.
Anyway it's going to take Via ages to get this into production, why do they torment us with nice pictures ...
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That's why I said the prototype from a few weeks ago, not the one shown therehand_held wrote:Gannon,
Did u hit refresh ? This model has no heatsink in the picture (Although it will have a big one when they get to production) This is a new Nano-itx, not the same as the one in the mac-mini case a few weeks back. This one is the Epia NL not the Epia N.
Anyway it's going to take Via ages to get this into production, why do they torment us with nice pictures ...
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