--- Xav  wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 15:05:33 -0000, Tom Lee Mullins wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> From the article:-
> 
> "D'Elia, who is iSuppli's PC market director, said the changes will
> bring smaller, more robust desktops, offering major benefits to
> enterprise users because the result will be a smaller footprint on
> the
> desktop. Combined with flat-panel screens, the new PCs will leave
> desks
> with more space."
> 
> 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.
> 
That's all interesting, but... You got me to imagine a little that the
only reason expansion cards are so big is to make it easy to  handle
them. How about instead of expansion cards, the micro module, no more
in size than the socket 7 CPU, several serial (usb, firewire)
connectors accessed by the modules that need external connectivity, and
40 to 80 gig CompactFlash or SecureDigital cards in place of hard
drives. This complete computer could be no larger than a VHS cassette,
or just built into the keyboard. (I'll accept royalty payments for the
ideas) :-) Oh yeah, the flash cards would be about $59 and really fast.

Franklin


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