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- SFF
- Small Form Factor Refers to a device that is smaller than others in its field. For example, a miniature display on a cellphone is an SFF device because...
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- Shuttle XPC P2 3700g
- The Shuttle XPC P2 3700g is the newer, Intel version of the AMD-based XPC P2 2700 model we reviewed earlier this year and adds a couple of important upgrades. First, the P2 3700g features Intel's Core 2 Duo processors, which our tests show improve overall performance. Using the same chassis...
- Tags: Desktops, Processors, Shuttle, Maingear, power supply, Falcon Northwest, card, SFF, graphics
- Product reviews 2006-11-20
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- What's next for the MacBook Air?
- Brook Crothers at CNet's nanotech blog has posted an interesting piece about what upgrade options might be coming for the MacBook Air. Drives Apple dropped the price of the 64GB Solid State Disk SSD option by US$400 on Thursday but Crothers points to higher capacity, 128GB...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Apple MacBook, Battery, Disk, Engineering, Hardware, Intel Corp., jason D. O'Grady, MBA, MLC, Notebooks, Notebooks & Tablets, Solid State Disk, Processor
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- S3 Graphics launches Chrome 400 Series - DirectX 10.1 and HD support for under $60
- Most people are surprised to hear that there's an alternative to ATi and nVIDIA when choosing graphics cards, but there is. Today S3 Graphics have released the first card in the Chrome 400 Series - the Chrome 430 GT. The Chrome 430 GT is a little different...
- Tags: Card, S3 Inc., Video, Graphics, DirectX, S3 Graphics, HD, Chrome 430 GT, Video Engine, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- MacBook Pro Penryn update imminent (updated)
- MacBook Pro Penryn update imminent updatedReason for not using PenrynAccording to Anandtech, a small form factor package is the reason for using Merom instead of Penryn:"The CPU used in the MacBook Air isn’t your run of the mill mobile Core 2, instead it uses a new small form factor packaging...
- Tags: Chipsets, Notebooks, Semiconductors, MacBook Pro Penryn, Apple MacBook, Penryn, Apple MacBook Pro, chipset, CPU
- Discussion threads 2008-02-20
- Why aren't small drives cheaper?
- Smaller Is Better, So Why Isn't It Cheaper?I've been wondering when the 2.5" form factor will replace the 3.5" drive. After all, the 100,000,000x increase in areal density has seen the extinction of 24", 14", 9", 8" and 5.25" form factors. Areal density keeps increasing, so why haven't we yet...
- Tags: Disk, Vendor, Form Factor, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2007-08-24
- The Mac mini 'smoke screen'
- The Mac mini 'smoke screen'It's not about saving money...You don't buy a MAC for saving money. You buy it for the quality. My parent's PCs crash at least once a day - my mac? Once every six months has a kernal panic. You want to tweak photos? Listen to music?...
- Tags: Desktops, Cyberthreats, TCO, Apple Macintosh, PC, Apple Intel Mac Mini, Apple iMac
- Discussion threads 2007-08-10
- Is AMD's business model 'fundamentally broken'?
- Is AMD's business model 'fundamentally broken'?Betting the Farm on Barcelona?I blog about Oracle-related topics and am a keen Opteron fan, but I submit the following link to my Oracle/Barcelona related blog entries:http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/t/oracle-on-opteron-numa-etc/Answering a rhetorical question:"Does market share at the expense of profits really make sense?"Yes. Ask the Japanese car...
- Tags: Network technology, Semiconductors, Processors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-01-24
- Thinking of buying a Shuttle PC? Think again...
- Thinking of buying a Shuttle PC? Think again...I don't understand...you tried getting a 5V card working in a 3V system and thought a downgrade on the BIOS was going to do the trick? That a BIOS flash was going to magically increase the voltage on the bus?wow.no offense, but...
- Tags: BIOS, accountability, Shuttle, Shuttle PC, TigerDirect, shuttle, hardware, PC
- Discussion threads 2006-12-26
- Apple Mac Mini Core Duo (1.83GHz)
- Lost among the news of the emergence of the Intel-based Mac Pro and the iMac getting a boost with new Intel Core 2 Duo CPUs was the Mac Mini receiving a CPU jolt of its own. The low-end $599 model tossed aside its Core Solo processor for a Core Duo,...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac Mini, Apple Intel Mac Mini, Apple Computer Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., memory, Slimline
- Product reviews 2006-10-11
- Dell XPS 210
- Dell's small-form-factor SFF PC, newly revamped and renamed the XPS 210 ($1,844, as configured) might be better off picking a side. On the one hand, you have the likes of Apple and WinBook, whose closed boxes are tiny, feature-packed, generally sub-$1,000 powerhouses whose strengths are basic computing and serving up...
- Tags: Processors, XPS 210, Intel Core 2 Duo, Dell Computer Corp., hard drive
- Product reviews 2006-09-14
- Shuttle XPC P2 2700
- The WinBook Jiv Mini trumped even the Apple Mac Mini for the number of features you can pack into a tiny media PC, and both models make the traditional bread box-size small-form-factor SFF case look downright gigantic. With Intel and AMD both increasing their chips' power efficiency, we expect this...
- Tags: Processors, Games, Shuttle, XPC P2 2700
- Product reviews 2006-07-20
- WinBook Jiv Mini
- Hardly a week goes by it seems without another Mac Mini-style Media Center showing up on our doorstep. The WinBook Jiv Mini manages to pack more features into a smaller package than any small-form-factor SFF system we've seen to date. Not much bigger than a standard router, it boasts an...
- Tags: Media Center PCs, DVD, Consumer electronics, Desktops, TV & Home Theater, WinBook, WinBook Jiv Mini, WinBook Jiv, Jiv Mini
- Product reviews 2006-06-26
- Shuttle SN25P
- For around $375 (and we bet that price will drop shortly when AMD's chip prices fall) Shuttle's bare-bones SN25P gives you a decent small-form-factor SFF case, a 350-watt power supply, and an Nforce 4 Ultra motherboard. There's a PCI Express graphics card slot if you don't want to rely on...
- Tags: PCI, Network technology, Semiconductors, Processors, Shuttle SN25P, Shuttle, SFF PC, motherboard, chip
- Product reviews 2006-06-21
- Maingear X-Cube
- We don't usually get to make sweeping declarative statements, but Maingear has given us the opportunity. Its small-form-factor SFF X-Cube gaming desktop is the most advanced PC in its class. No other vendor of a pseudo-portable gaming computer offers a more up-to-date system. This $3,300 PC is by no means...
- Tags: Chipsets, Desktops, Semiconductors, Processors, Network technology, Maingear X-Cube, Maingear, PC
- Product reviews 2006-06-20
- Enpower Media Center Xpress Special Edition
- Good things come in small packages, according to popular lore, and PC Club's pint-size Enpower Media Center Xpress Special Edition certainly tries to live up to that axiom, cramming lots of hardware into a small-form-factor SFF case. Putting the special in Special Edition are the twin SLI graphics cards, something...
- Tags: Media Center PCs, TV & Home Theater, Processors, SFF PC, Enpower Media Center Xpress Special Edition, SFF case
- Product reviews 2006-06-16
- Antec Minuet 300
- We're not sold on the $90 Antec Minuet 300, but it has nothing to do with its design. The clean and simple exterior speaks for itself. Just look at our photos or watch the video, and you'll see that it's easy to imagine the Minuet 300 sitting on a shelf...
- Tags: Desktops, PCI, Digital media, Minuet 300, Antec, Antec Minuet 300, SFF PC
- Product reviews 2006-06-16
- HP Pavilion s7320n Slimline
- Until recently, small-form-factor SFF desktop computers targeted niche buyers, such as gamers on the LAN-party circuit and city dwellers short on desk space. But with Apple's unveiling of the Mac Mini last year, the SFF computer began to migrate into the mainstream, thanks to the Mini's aggressive price point and...
- Tags: Desktops, Processors, s7320n, Slimline, HP Pavilion, Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel Celeron M
- Product reviews 2006-04-17
- Blueado Mini m5e
- Boutique computer manufacturer Blueado focuses on Media Centers, producing several models aimed at high-end home-theater customers. Most of its systems are large, rack-style boxes, but the $1,500 Blueado Mini m5e is a small-form-factor SFF PC that's roughly the size of two Mac Minis stacked end to end. If you're looking...
- Tags: Media Center PCs, Processors, Desktops, Consumer electronics, TV & Home Theater, Blueado Mini, Intel Pentium M, Intel Pentium, video
- Product reviews 2006-04-17
- Photos: Origami handheld devices
- Photos: Origami handheld devicesUMPCshould stand for UGLY moblie PC.Has no one learned from apple, RAZR or the new PSP?it seems that nintendo has since they are already restyling the DS.it seems the ROKR and its ugliness were duly noted by the SLVR.Get these devices some cosmetic surgery ASAP!UMPCIs the really...
- Tags: Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), PRODUCTIVITY, Handhelds, Notebooks, Fujitsu P1510, ultramobile PC, Motion Computing Inc., handheld, photograph, computer, handheld device
- Discussion threads 2006-03-09
- Shuttle XPC G5 1100h
- Shuttle made a name for itself by pioneering the small-form-factor SFF PC case, and the XPC G5 1100h is the company's smallest system yet. Lose the graphics card, and we'd wager that it could also stake a claim as Shuttle's quietest system. We typically don't recommend integrated graphics over a...
- Tags: Video cards, Network technology, Semiconductors, Processors, Mice, Desktops, Shuttle, XPC G5, Shuttle XPC G5, chip, graphics
- Product reviews 2006-02-07
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