Fit PC gets slimmer

Posted by Rob Beschizza, September 19, 2008 7:26 AM | permalink

The king of ultrawee desktop PC's is Artigo, a kit model based on Via's minuscle Pico-ITX motherboard. The newest Fit-PC Slim aims to take its tiny little crown.

The specs are even crummier than Pico, with a 500 MHz Geode, 512 MB of RAM, a 60GB hard drive and last-gen WiFi, but three USB ports is a fair set and you're not exactly going to be cracking through the latest games with it, are you?

Kids' bedrooms, MAME cabinets, closet-bound file/web servers, the basics in a minimalist frame. The original remains $345 (or $445 with an XP license), but the slim edition's not quite ready yet.

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#1 posted by zuzu

, September 19, 2008 6:42 PM

The dimensions of the slim Fit PC (100x110x30mm) seems to approximate compact mobile CB radios, which also are typically the dimension of the ashtray in most vehicles and so are frequently installed there -- particularly when lacking spare DIN slots in the dash.

This could have interesting implications for the carputer scene. It even runs on 12v DC (which is within tolerance to the 13.8vDC used in vehicles.) Anyone have Google Android running on one of these FitPC yet?