Via announced the Article A1250, a product that the company claims to be the world's smallest computer with quad-core x86 architecture. Very compact, with only 17.7 cm wide, 12.5 cm deep and 3 cm high, it is designed primarily to serve as a home server.
Article inside A1250 has a quad-core E-Series 1 GHz Via manufactured by itself. The company had already developed other processors for desktops, such as C3 and Nano, but never managed to get close to the giants AMD and Intel. But the E-Series seems to be quite attractive: supports 1080p video playback in 3D, manages up to 8 GB of RAM DDR3 1333 MHz The entire set consumes a maximum of 30W.
The friendly PC has plenty of connections. In front are two USB 2.0 ports, audio output, a microphone input and an auxiliary. At the rear, it comes with two USB 3.0 ports, HDMI video output and VGA and a Gigabit Ethernet connection, and the connector for the antenna WiFi And there is a SATA port inside to connect a hard drive or SSD of 2, 5 ".
If you are thinking of setting up a server to store your backups or stream multimedia content, Article A1250 is an option to consider - according to Via, it can also be used in hotel management, home automation and security applications . The PC has the "size of a paperback book" and supports systems Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows XP Embedded Standard 2009, Windows Embedded Standard 7 and Linux.
The advice of Via in Brazil did not say when the product will be available in stores nationals. In other countries, it is expected that Article A1250 is released in a month, still no set price.
Article inside A1250 has a quad-core E-Series 1 GHz Via manufactured by itself. The company had already developed other processors for desktops, such as C3 and Nano, but never managed to get close to the giants AMD and Intel. But the E-Series seems to be quite attractive: supports 1080p video playback in 3D, manages up to 8 GB of RAM DDR3 1333 MHz The entire set consumes a maximum of 30W.
The friendly PC has plenty of connections. In front are two USB 2.0 ports, audio output, a microphone input and an auxiliary. At the rear, it comes with two USB 3.0 ports, HDMI video output and VGA and a Gigabit Ethernet connection, and the connector for the antenna WiFi And there is a SATA port inside to connect a hard drive or SSD of 2, 5 ".
If you are thinking of setting up a server to store your backups or stream multimedia content, Article A1250 is an option to consider - according to Via, it can also be used in hotel management, home automation and security applications . The PC has the "size of a paperback book" and supports systems Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows XP Embedded Standard 2009, Windows Embedded Standard 7 and Linux.
The advice of Via in Brazil did not say when the product will be available in stores nationals. In other countries, it is expected that Article A1250 is released in a month, still no set price.
