ZPC. Opinions?

Post by **Serpent** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 3:12 pm

http://www.cybernetman.com/default.cfm?DocId=9000

Post by **Dataspel** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 4:21 pm

Looks interesting. If you get it, let us know how it works.

I did not see any kind of case to protect the keyboard.
And no mention of battery, so it will probably be tethered
to a power cord.

Post by **Serpent** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 4:37 pm

Dataspel wrote:Looks interesting. If you get it, let us know how it works.

I did not see any kind of case to protect the keyboard.
And no mention of battery, so it will probably be tethered
to a power cord.

ya....dc power port on the back...

Post by **Baron[CotC]** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 5:02 pm

heh I saw "using Intel's latest 800MHz processors" and got real confused.

Then I realized they were talking about bus speed and not processor speed.

Big drawback is you cant upgrade it worth a darn.

its video is just an integrated intel chipset, and its only got one PCI slot to add hardware with, and if you install an optical drive you lose the PCI slot? ouch.

Post by **KrAzYdAvE** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 11:22 pm

looks good for a yuppy internet\spreadsheet only user with limited space or a severe complex about clutter on their desk, but for anything more you'd hit the limitations of it.
It's essentially a laptop inside a keyboard, without the PCMCIA slots...
if it wasn't half the price of a comparable laptop, I would just say get a laptop instead...

Post by **Neophyte** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 11:26 pm

Most computers have a use life of only 4 years. After that they are well behind the curve when you compare speed. If you figure that it's too slow to upgrade and you can't find P4 parts any way, and all interfaces went SATA and PCI-X, then you're pretty much stuck with this system. I'd only get something like that if I was cool with throwing the whole thing away in 4 years and get a new one. That, and if I had no intension to game, create media content, upgrade, and didn't mind the noise.

I also think that there's many more space saving designs which are more functional than one of these. Apple and some other companies have built their motherboards in the LCD Panel. Whish is also cool space saving thing. But my favorite is a laptop! So, I don't really get this system...

My mid-tower system isn't even any where near my desk. Actually I have two systems hidden near my desk. So it's not like people can't be creative when it comes to finding a stealthy placement for their systems.

Post by **Serpent** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 1:28 am

alright...I get the idea.

I want an SFF system... and this fits the 'S' in sff.... heh.. i have seen shuttle systems... and have been looking for a LONG time now... for a good (upgradable) ..decently priced... sff system... not sure if there are other companies like shuttle that make desktop-like small form factor pcs... shuttle boxes are upgradable... and come with up to 2gb ram or something, which is cool... and the mac mini comes with up to 1gb of ram, and i think has an ati chipset vid card, and can play most all games a pc can anyway... without the crashes of xp.

.... so those are the two options i am looking at, and i found this keyboard/whateveryouwannacallit.. so thought id see what you guys thought. lol

Post by **Baron[CotC]** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 4:28 am

I dunno my Grandfather and Uncle both use Macs and over the couple months I was visiting their macs crashed WAY more than my home XP ever does

Post by **Neophyte** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 11:28 am

RedBaron wrote:I dunno my Grandfather and Uncle both use Macs and over the couple months I was visiting their macs crashed WAY more than my home XP ever does

Leave it to Apple Engineer's to take something as solid as BSD Unix and make it unstable and poor at multi-threading! You would think that if you make the OS and the Hardware, that you could get something right and make a highly optimized kernel. Nope. Microsoft does a far better job at that game and they do it on thousands of hardware vendors.