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The editors liked
Nifty little system for tinkerers
Runs Windows & Linux
Extras included
Very tiny
Excellent power efficiencyCONS
Loud fan
difficult to quite or replace
Incapable of rendering H264
VC1
and x264 encoded HD video
Poor performance
High price
Our thanks to VIA Technologies
Inc. for the Artigo 1000A PicoITX Builder Kit sa...
Very compact
very low power usage
easy to assemble
Smallest desktop PC weve seen
by a long shot
easy to build
quiet operation
The editors didn't like
Very niche uses
A little expensive
Loud fan
difficult to quite or replace
Incapable of rendering H264
VC1
and x264 encoded HD video
Poor performance
High price
Lack of SATA support in the current kit
a little noisy
Accepts only SO-DIMM DDR2 RAM
RAM limited to 1GB
no Vista support
only minimally customizable
no optical drive
included dongles cant be used without modifying the case
Very tiny, Excellent power efficiencyCONS, Loud fan, difficult to quite or replace, Incapable of rendering H264, VC1, and x264 encoded HD video, Poor performance, High price, Our thanks to VIA Technologies, Inc. for the Artigo 1000A PicoITX Builder Kit sa...
Loud fan, difficult to quite or replace, Incapable of rendering H264, VC1, and x264 encoded HD video, Poor performance, High price
In Artigo, VIA is trying to offer basic functionality in a very tiny, power efficient package. For the most part this goal was achieved. The 1GHz C7 processor, slow by modern standards, gets simple tasks done, but high definition video playback and an...
Published: 2008-11-04, Author: Jeremy Kriegel , crunchgear.com
Abstract: Say you needed a small PC with low power requirements to install inside a car or even inside a PCs drive bay. Well, friend, you should consider $300 VIA’s Artigo Pico-ITX. This tiny thing out-minis the Mac Mini and can run fast enough to put some of yo...
Smallest desktop PC weve seen, by a long shot; easy to build; quiet operation
Accepts only SO-DIMM DDR2 RAM; RAM limited to 1GB; no Vista support; only minimally customizable; no optical drive; included dongles cant be used without modifying the case
Employing technology designed for embedded systems, the Artigo Pico-ITX PC Builder Kit lets you assemble a computer tiny enough to fit in a conventional PCs drive bay. Customizability and performance are lacking, but small is what this PC is all about...
They Have A Fight, Triangle Wins So. What exactly is the problem? The absolute root cause of the problem is VIAs C7 processor. Although VIAs press release and website target Pico-ITX at "the ultra compact embedded system platforms" it has also tried ...
Abstract: We’ve all seen the mini PCs like Lenovo’s Thinkcenter Desktops and Dell’s small desktops. We’ve also seen other PCs about the size of a external CD rom. Now, we have one that’s about half that size. VIA had brought ou...
Abstract: LArtigo de VIA a la taille dun disque dur externe et le poids dune boîte de thon. Dans ce boîtier de 300 grammes, on trouve de quoi assembler un nano PC basé sur une toute petite carte mère au format pico-ITX (semblable à la VT6047) et un processeur...