My name is Mike van den Ham and I work as a project engineer requires me to give many client presentations. I often have to carry around laptops and vast amounts of data on external hard disk drives. I needed a solution that would be small enough to carry around but powerful enough to perform as a Windows Home Server and to store all my data. I mentioned this to my friend and he showed me his compact PC systems.
I took one look at them and it dawned on me; how life would be for me if I had a more elegant solution to use for my presentations; a very small and compact Windows Home Server! Something light enough to carry around with me to work but strong enough to synchronize all my data directly onto this tiny WHS.
It was perfect, only 50 H X 275 W X 172 D mm (1.9″ X 10.8″ X 6.7″). I was surprised at how compact the system board was built. The board included graphics, sound, network, PS/2 keyboard and mouse, parallel, 2 serial, 2 USB and support for a 3.5″ or 2.5″ IDE hard drive. I bought both of his systems.
I used the IDE port with power supply connector as installation DVD solution. The setup for the Windows Home Server was running without any problem. I was really surprised at the performance of this little system. I now use one for my development and test environment and the other for presentations.
I am really excited about this system. Here are some photos and the technical data.
Technical data:
| Manufacturer | http://www.lex.com.tw/ |
| Processor | VIA C3/EDEN 376 PIN EBGA CPU with 1000 MHz, Front Side Bus 100/133 MHz, integrated full speed 192KB L1/L2 Cache |
| Memory | PC 133/100 SDRAM DIMM, one DIMM Socket max 1GByte |
| System Chipset |
VIA PLE133 VT8601A und VT82C686B chipset, VT8601A integrated Trident VGA Graphic, Realtek ALC201A AC97 Sound, 1x 10/100 Mb LAN Realtek
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| Graphic | integrated Graphic controller with VT8601A Trident VGA, 64bit single cycle 2D/3D Graphic engine, support for 2 to 8 MB Frame Buffer, expanded Screen resolution max. to 1600×1200 Pixel |
| Sound | AC97 2.1 compatible |
| Front connections | Power switch, Power LED and HDD LED |
| Backside connections | DC 12V input, PS/2 Keyboard und Mouse 2x USB, 2x serial, 1x parallel, 1x LAN, Line out, MIC in |
| Internal connections | 40pin IDE for DOM, Hard disk or CD/DVD-ROM, 44pin IDE for DOM or 2.5″ Hard disk, DOC (DiskOnChip) Socket, 50pin Compact Flash Disk Socket |
| BIOS | Award BIOS, LAN PXE boot ROM |
| Driver for | Linux, Windows 9x/2000/2003/XP |
| Power supply | 1000 MHz: 9 – 22 Watt (hard drive, USB connections, ..) |
| Power consumption | external 110-230VAC/12VDC, on Board Converter (12V input for +3.3V/+5V/+12V) |
| Housing | black anodized aluminum |
Thanks for reading,
Mike
WOW, so there is no CPU fan? or does the Eden processor have a tiny fan under that white plastic box?
Does the power button light up blue?
Hello RichardB,
there is no fan in the system. On the third foto you can see the silver aluminum cooling block. That's all, nothing more. The joke is, there are two connectors for fan's
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And yes the power button light's blue. In the dark it helps me by my orientation in the livingroom
Wow, a little baby
Looks beautiful! You can place this one in a kittchen or another room… and nobody will observe it
Yes Daniel, but then i need your webcam add-in. The new one please
Very cute
@Tink,yes very cute it's my little baby, or better now twins
This would be great for people that have camper vans that they live in for 1 month or so at a time and still want access to their music and documents. Or even in the car to record all around.
@Kurt:
Right Kurt, for the car to record data. That was the study work from my friend….
Yeah Mike, it would be cheaper then getting one of those mobile CCTV products, as you know what its like driving and someone cuts you up or forces you off the road (mainly buses- lol)
AT next i will change the hardware. A controller from IDE to dual SATA. So i can use a bigger hard disk (2.5 inch) inside and i can build an e-SATA port to connect a bigger drive for real backups. With the internal IDE port i can use only 250 GByte drives. With the SATA port i can use 350GByte and more.
Is the motherboard a mini-atx, micro-atx or mini-itx?
@DrWho:
Lex Computer means micro-atx. Uhad contact with one on of the service engineers and he told me that.
A PCMCIA port would do the trick for GM. They need some kind of boost for their auto line up and that will stuff nicely under any dash board. I might have a marketing scheme for this one.
Very nice, I hope it works out for you! Have you any Ideas for a marketing target?
Sam,
Mike,
I came across this computer. http://www.newegg.com/…/Product.aspx It is slightly bigger than the one you have.
This one is based on the VIA CPU. There is no mention of OS support. Is it limited to Linux?