Portable Computer Idea , ( not copying anybody else, well,)

[tom61]

ok, sorry for triple posting, but can anyone find me a

2 IDE port
Floppy Cable
no soundcard
no video card
non imbedded prosessor, can use a gaming prosessor
possibly 2 usb 2.0, 2 usb, 2 fire wire
2 RAM sim port

Mini ITX /|\ or some other kind of small mobo

Why wouldn't you want onboard sound and video? You're going to have a very difficult time finding one without both, and it'd probably cost more too(smaller run=higher cost per unit, and most SFF users want onboard sound/video). You can disable them, and the one I linked for you even has an AGP slot. What type of RAM were you planning to use? SIMM is an old standard that went out with the Pentium, so I'm guessing that's a typo.

Cheapest barebone (hard to find the board by itself) that can use an Athlon XP processor, has 2 IDE channels (2 SATA too), and takes DDR RAM: http://store.yahoo.com/directron/sn41g2v3.html
http://techreport.com/reviews/2003q1/sh ... dex.x?pg=1

[FDSMAN]

so, is that just a box with a mobo in it? is it mini?

[Niku-Sama]

its smaller than a 24 pack of pepsi how ever theres so much jammed into it when you get all the part for it to run you wont have much room for any sort of power source except the powersupply that it comes with

[KANDYMAN-IAC]

I would love to make one myself... but i like smaller better...

Nano ITX standard board... 12cm by 12cm with a height due to ports of about 3.5 cms... (aprox 4.7 inches square, and 1.4 inches high). Not sure i can do much about the height, maybe i could desolder the ports and rearrange them (probably completely mess up the board).

NANO ITX specs, 1 - 1.4ghz eden processor, indubuilt IGP graphics with a C3 chip, equivilant to 8x AGP MMX 2d and 3d. Meant to deliver FALWLESS dvd and mpeg2 play back, and capable of playing diablo 2 (not so bad really). can have up to a gig of ddr 400 ram. Mini PCI (kinda gonna ignore that), network port, 2 usb 2.0 ports, vga, tv out, and built in stereo (can't remember if its 2.1 or what).

I figure with a hacked PS-one screen or high quality 5 - 7" LCD screen, and a 100gig laptop hard drive, with as tiny an inbuilt keyboard as i can find, and an external mouse, this would be the cutest nano laptop one could build.

I'd have to go back and check power consumption to see if it is really viable. I was considering to day, if it had an external battery pack that i could wear as belt clip, with a cable running to the unit, i could add some sort of nub mouse controller and mayber even make it a wearable PC.. Oh to dream.

TOTAL COST, whole bunch of money... real satisfaction in having something very small. Plus I am an old school gamer, maybe with a suite of arcade and console emulators and a personally customized usb game pad then this could be one of the sweetest toyes in the universe.


Its actually very viable, VIA has started production of embedded CHEAP ultra portable 12" laptops for linspire, its just a slightly modded mine ITX board apparently.

[tom61]

so, is that just a box with a mobo in it? is it mini?

Yes on both counts.

[FDSMAN]

ok, so I'm gonna use it, thanks tom61