Microsoft has spent a lot of time over the last few months showing off the new Metro user interface for Windows 8. This is a full screen UI designed for apps that are “chromeless,” meaning there are no title bars, borders, or other items surrounding them. They take up the full screen and look great on tablets, all-in-one PCs, and…
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Lenovo’s taking a truth-in-advertising approach with two upcoming desktop computers, and calling them the ThinkCentre M92p and M72e “tiny” desktop PCs. Each computer measures just a little over 1.3 inches thick and looks more like a USB DVD drive than a full-fledged computer. Lenovo is aiming the PCs at business customers though, so the company is instead comparing them to…
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Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn is probably best known as the company that builds iPhones and iPads for Apple. But every now and again you can actually buy computers and components with the Foxconn name. Newegg is full of them. Two of Foxconn’s latest devices are Nano PC desktop computers with small, fanless cases. According to Fanless Tech, two barebones models will…
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If you thought that the mini-ITX system boards found in small form factor computers like those offered by Shuttle were small, Intel has something to show you. It’s a new smaller computer board it called NUC, or Next Unit of Computing. The NUC platform measures just 10cm by 10cm, or about 4 inches by 4 inches, compared with 6.7″ x…
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Zotac has been offering a line of tiny desktop computers for a few years. Up until recently most feature low power Intel Atom or AMD Fusion processors, but this month Zotac unveiled new models with Intel second-generation Core i3 Sandy Bridge processors. In other words, the Zotac ZBOX ID82 isn’t just a mini-PC aimed designed for people looking for a…
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Acer has released a new mini-desktop called the Revo 70. Like the company’s earlier nettops, the Revo 70 isn’t much larger than a DVD drive… although it doesn’t actually have one. Instead this little computer has the guts of a reasonably decent ultraportable notebook packed into a slim case. The R70 measures 8.26″ x 8.26″ x 2.13″ and weighs just…
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Sapphire Technology offers a line of miniature desktop computers that aren’t much bigger than a DVD drive under the Sapphire Edge-HD brand. Up until recently the company was packing its little computers with Intel Atom processors and NVIDIA ION graphics, but now a new model is on the way with an AMD Fusion processor. The Sapphire Edge-HD3 Mini PC showed…
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Small form factor PC maker Shuttle is preparing to launch at least three new mini-desktop computers. All three will feature 2.13 GHz Intel Atom D2700 dual core processors. Intel’s new chip has a maximum TDP of 10W and doesn’t generate much heat, which allows all three of the new computers to use passive cooling. That means they won’t have any…
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A new mini-desktop computer from EliteGroup Computer Systems (ECS) showed up at the FCC website this week. It looks like a low-power nettop computer, but it will be available with Intel Core i5 or Core i7 Sandy Bridge processors, making it a pretty decent replacement for a full-sized desktop PC. ECS is a Taiwanese computer manufacturer, and it’s likely that the…
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Asus has introduced a new super-slim desktop computer called the Eee Box EB1031. It has a 2.13 GHz Intel Atom D2700 Cedar Trail processor with support for 1080p HD video playback, up to 4GB of RAM, and a 2.5″ hard drive bay with support for up to 500GB of storage. The EB1031 also as USB 3.0 support, HDMI output, a…
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Lenovo has introduced a new mini-desktop that the company calls the world’s smallest desktop computer. The Lenovo IdeaCentre Q180 is pretty small, measuring just 7.6″ x 6.1″ x 0.86″, but it’s certainly not the smallest desktop PC… not by a long shot. You don’t even have to look at minuscule computers like the Trim Slice, Raspberry Pi to find smaller PCs. The new…
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It’s been almost a year since Compulab introduced the Fit-PC3, a desktop computer that’s small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, but which features HD graphics capabilities. Now it’s finally available for purchase. The Fit-PC3 includes an AMD embedded processor with Radeon HD graphics. The little computer has space for 2 sticks of DDR3 memory, a hard…
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