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VIA ART-3000: Embedded PC or nettop?

VIA is marketing its new ART-3000 mini-PC as an embedded solution for industrial and commercial purposes. But you know what? This little guy has enough oomph to function halfway decently as a low power, small form factor desktop. Or as SlashGear points out, you could use it as the basis for a carputer, thanks to […]

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VIA introduces new mini-mainboards for Nano processors

Chip maker VIA has a rather tiny share of the PC CPU market. So perhaps it’s appropriate the company is focusing heavily on CPUs for tiny PCs. And that doesn’t just mean netbooks. VIA is introducing two new desktop motherboards for small form-factor desktop computers, also called nettops. Both are designed to use VIA’s low […]

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The VIA-based nettops of Shenzhen China

Big name PC makers are pumping out tiny low power desktops, often called nettops, like nobody’s business. Or rather, like everybody’s business. But while most of the nettops coming from companies like Lenovo, Acer, Asus, and MSI are sporting Intel Atom processors and occasionally NVIDIA ION graphics, things are taking a different turn in Shenzhen, […]