Opinions: nForce for portable machines!

[bluemax]

Seriously, imagine a very cool, stylish FlexATX box like those BookPC's but with room for 1 or 2 PCI cards fit sideways (or not, almost unnecessary.)
Very small, cool, efficient system with good graphics and sound, onboard LAN (possibly modem)... nice all-in-one box for just about anything. Great LAN-gaming box to pop under your arm..

Just a thought, in light of systems like the Shuttle SV24 becoming rather popular. Something like that with an Nforce instead of Savage4...

 

[MadRat]

Savage4... boo! *hiss*

 

[PlatinumGold]

how bout an all in one in the keyboard? that's what i would wanna see.

 

[DcHoliday9]

<< how bout an all in one in the keyboard? that's what i would wanna see. >>



Thats been done. Let me go and find a link. I can't remember the exact name if it.

 

[gdawson6]

Just soak your current motherboard in water for an hour, and they it will get soft and you can bend it without breaking to whatever shape you want!

ive never tried this personally...but why wouldnt it work?

 

[DcHoliday9]

Here is that link

Keyboard PC
Another newer one

Just search on google for Zero Footprint PC.

 

[bluemax]

I remember when those keyboard PCs were brand new! Man those were cool... reminded me of my early computing days with the TI99 4/a and Tandy 1000 EX/HX machines. Others too, like the Commodore64, Vic20, Amiga500, etc, etc....

Now one of THOSE with an nForce subsystem for graphics and sound and you've got it MADE! Oh I'd love that.... [drool]

 

[PlatinumGold]

doc

ya i knew about the keyboard pc, i meant w/ the NFORCE board. then u'd get decent performance.

 

[bluemax]

maybe we should get a petition going?
(All what, three of us?)

 

[DcHoliday9]

Sorry about that, I just thought you had never heard of that. A Nforce board would be nice inside of one of those.

 

[bluemax]

I've really gotten to thinking... that would make the ultimate portable machine, short of a laptop...
the larger keyboard is far better for typing, however, and has the option of either a PCI card OR an optical drive...
One of those based on an nForce would be so cool to walk into a LAN party with. As far as useful goes, the CasperII mini-case with 4 full-sized expantion slots or a flex-style "BookPC" or similar with 2 standard PCI on a riser would be more expandable.

If one could make a keyboard all-in-one unit juuuust a bit larger to house an optical drive AND 1 PCI card and still have onboard everything (56k modem and/or LAN, GF2MX video, 5.1 audio, TV out, USB 2.0, maybe eve firewire...)
That would just plain rock.

EDIT: I remember a series of laptops during the 386/486 era that housed a full-sized ISA slot.... it could be MOST practical to have what could best be described as a Large Laptop. One with a standard PCI slot (or two!) and a GOOD sized keyboard. It'd be 10 pounds for sure, but I'd do it to have a REAL machine I could take anywhere easily. Like a lunchbox system but with a 15" LCD.

 

[DDad]

I was going to try building a Briefcase/toolkit box- I've got enough spare parts to build with a KM133 board, but the overall performance hits I take by using that are too disapointing- I'll sell the KM133 setup, use my "ill gotten gains" for Nforce & DDr

 

[bluemax]

Start with a microATX board, of course. 3PCI and 1AGP should be MORE than enough, considering all the goodies onboard!