Fanless Aleutia F5 Slim Now Available for Pre Order – No Moving Parts, Fits in Your Hand
Sharing the same internal spec as the model below (1.0 GHz Via Eden ULV CPU, 1GB DDR2 400MHz RAM, 12V DC Input, 10 Watts) but in a slimmer case since it's designed to accomodate 2.5" laptop drives. So we can't offer a Terabyte of storage as standard but we can use extremly fast solid state drives to offer a tiny PC with no moving parts that's not crummy when it comes to performance. And the thick anodized aluminum case puts the Mac Mini to shame.
Standard configurations will be:
- 8GB CF Card with Ubuntu or Crunchbang (a lighterweight version of Ubuntu that includes Flash)
- 30GB OCZ SSD (155 MB/s Read Speed, 90 MB/s Write Speed)
Hard Drives:
- 40GB SATA Seagate 5400RPM Drive (faster than CF card, cheaper than SSD)
- 250GB 7200RPM Western Digital Scorpio Black Drive
- 500GB 5400RPM Western Digital Scorpio Blue Drive
Email sales at aleutia dot com to place pre orders and we can send a Paypal Invoice over. Shipping in UK is £7.50 to Europe it's €15, and pretty much anywhere else is $30.
Here comes the Esprimo Q5030 E-Star4
This new PC from Fujitsu is so much more expensive ($1000+) than the E2 and has a power consumption listed in its datasheet as TBD, that it hardly competes with us and is thus open grounds for discussion. First, I know "E2" is not the most inspired name but what kind of title is Esprimo Q5030 E-Star4, or even Q5030? This isn't some anonymous manufacturer from Guangzhou with a product on Alibaba, this is Fujitsu Siemens, icons of Germany and Japan, whose ads bombard me from the pages of the Economist! And their product page promises, "This full fledge, next generation PC has a volume of just 1.4 liters." Since I always think of computers (especially full fledge ones) in liters.
Disappointing marketing aside, this seems to be the first attempt by a Wintel assembler to challenge the Mac Mini in specs - up to 2.26GHz Intel Core Duo, DVI output, 2GB RAM, 250GB drive, and DVD-RW drive. Weighs 1.5kg (compared to Aleutia's 505g) but a massive improvement over "Small Form Factor" PCs (that regularly come in over 10kg).
Of course, we're (eventually) heading this direction as well, though with optional Blu-ray and integrated Zigbee.