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Chris

6:46 PM on 13 August, 2009

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Hmm. Well, 'desktop components' surely mean it's not Atom or CULV. A Phenom 'e' series on an ITX board perhaps?

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xbrumster

7:03 PM on 13 August, 2009

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the war of mini PC is getting heated up..

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Ed

7:09 PM on 13 August, 2009

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@Chris: AMD would love that - I reckon this thing could really take off! Looks liks a very nice system but should've happened years ago.

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Bytes

7:12 PM on 13 August, 2009

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I love how teh eSATA ports are actually USB (I have a direct comparison of USB/eSATA combo port, eSATA only port and USB port... these are USB's), and the VGA one is a serial port (count the pins) :P

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pimlicosound

7:20 PM on 13 August, 2009

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I'm hoping for a low-end Pentium or C2D, a G9400 chipset and a Blu-Ray drive. Now if there were only room for a half-height PCI-E expansion card, for a TV tuner, it would be ideal.

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ilovethemonkeyhead

10:29 PM on 13 August, 2009

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ion. they could be sneaky and claim "well, it was in a desktop once..."

the ion could accept a dual core atom, anyhow.

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Ed

12:31 AM on 14 August, 2009

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@Bytes: Right you are on both fronts. However, the eSATA port is quite clearly labelled so I'm guessing this might be an early mockup that doesn't actually have the functionality yet. As for the serial port, again, it could be there just to fill a hole until working versions of the system are made or it could just be a service port. Time will tell.

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Chris

2:48 PM on 14 August, 2009

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I reckon a serial port might end up being more likely than a VGA port in that hole. A lot of POS systems use serial interfaces, so maybe Dell want to target them as well.

@pimlicosound:

Whatever the chip is, it will need to be a low power design - spot the DC power jack, which means passively cooled external power supply.

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pimlicosound

3:20 PM on 14 August, 2009

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@Chris: Silent PC Review ran a C2D E7200 on the Zotac 9300 mini-ITX board in the Antec ISK 300, which uses a tiny 65W external PSU.

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article959-page4.html

There's no reason Dell couldn't use a decent set of desktop components in this, provided they're cooled adequately.

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Chris

3:44 PM on 14 August, 2009

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@pimlicosound: Yep, that's the kind of thing I was referring to. Something with a 65W TDP or less anyway...

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