The recently announced VIA EPIA-P720, the Pico-ITX motherboard, that can play 1080p and is passively cooled, has raised some eyebrows over at MaximumPC. In the comments to their short article about the palm-sized board, their readers seem most interested in sticking the tiny mobo in their lounge rooms.
"Though the presention mentions public displays, not htpc's, so I'm curious if they think it would be good as such. If so then I think this is an insanely awesome product. One major issue with htpc's is the size of the box. Now you can have one the size of your $30 dvd player."
"While mobos are flat, a gpu isn't. And rolling with mATX is still large. (as in the sese that your HTPC is about the size of an old XBOX :P)This type of PC would own at my place. My parents would love this for a computer. Theoretically, you could make an HTPC, oh say the size of a Gamecube, about the size of a lunch box."
"sounds like this mobo is like the perfect htpc mobo - at least on a term of size - that only does what an htpc should do.."
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