Advansus at Computex
Two lucky members of our team recently returned from Taipei. Their chief reason for the trip was for the awesome karaoke, but Computex was a close second. One of the manufacturers on hand for this year’s show was Advansus (as in Advantech and Asus). They have been in the Mini-ITX game since 2006 and had [...]
Splitting the Atom: Third-Party Board Offerings at Computex
Computex 2008 has come and gone, and with it a whole slew of product announcements and press releases with all manner of companies touting their contribution toward the “next big thing” in the world of computing. Although we at Logic Supply are more interested in the next small thing, there was still plenty for us [...]
Computex 2008 report
Vermont to Computex Taipei—27 long hours in the air, the longest I have ever flown in my life. Four movies later, we landed in Taiwan. It was my first time in Taipei and my first time that far west or east since I was born in Poland. This year, Computex hosted over 1,600 [...]
Mini-ITX 2.0 Coming Q4 2008
VIA Technologies announced the new Mini-ITX 2.0 platform that is to be released Q4 2008. It looks like the recently unveiled Nano processor will be paired up with a performance NVIDIA chipset to create this powerful and yet, still energy-efficient platform.
While visiting Computex, VIA’s products (booth) were hard to spot. On the other hand, [...]
Hardy Heron Testing Complete (For Now)
So now that I’ve concluded my compatibility testing between Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) and a rather large sample of our mainboards, we’re all set to start offering the option to ship systems with Hardy.
Throughout the testing, one thing I was pretty pleased with was to see some of the issues with 7.10 disappear for certain [...]