My guess is that the power supply occupies almost as much space as the 
rest of the components together in most machines.

All our machines except the notebook are in tower cases rather than in 
desktop cases, but it is possible to cram a great deal of computing 
power in a small space: 250GB of storage in a 3.5" drive, 1GB of RAM in 
a very small module, a DVD burner -- and many new machines no longer 
have a floppy drive. And many off-the-shelf machines probably have 
little in the way of expansion possibilities.

-=-
Alan


On 01/28/04 11:39 am Xav put fingers to keyboard and launched the 
following message into cyberspace:

> How many folk use desktop machines - most I know use towers sited on
> the floor beside or under the desk.    The greatest spacesavers are LCD
> screens.
> 
> However, just how far can you go in terms of case size?    I picked up
> some old Compaq SFF machines ( Pentium 233 based) for about $15 each. 
> These measure about 12" x 12" x 3" and roughly half to
two thirds of
> the internal space is taked by HD, Floppy drive, CD drive and
> PSU.      I suppose you could ditch the floppy, use notebook hard
> drives, really small motherboards and thus halve the size of the thing
> but there would be no room for expansion cards.

 

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