Antec Mini Skeleton Review
Antec's customer base is extremely different from Aleutia's: individuals building top-end gaming and performance rigs, rather than our bread and butter of schools in Africa running on solar power. However, as Aleutia starts to offer more powerful systems such as our new U6, which connects to 6 x 15" (or greater) VGA monitors and so can be shared by 12 students, I've started to track ATX motherboards, quad core processors, massive heatsinks, silent case fans, terrabyte drives, and even ATX cases. I had come across Antec's somewhat revolutionary open air case and now they have an awesome, though rather expensive, mini-itx version out.
Check out the kickass review above - takes 4 x 2.5" drives as well as offering space for a PCI-E card. Really thinking this could combine well with the Zotac 9300 mini-itx board (Nvidia 9300 with Hybrid SLI) which we use on our B2 and D2. This way you could add a top end graphics card and either a very cheap DVD-RW drive or a BluRay player, perhaps an SSD. Have ordered one in so will let you - my enormous readership 
- know how we get on.
October 6th, 2010 - 06:51
solar power would be cheaper it we could just cut down the cost of solar cells**.