Stealth Ultra-Mini PC

[John_Keck]

Stealth has unveiled an ultra-tiny PC that weighs a mere 1.2 lbs and is the size of a paperback book. While it does carry a pretty high price tag, I was pretty impressed by the specs of the tiny thing. Not really sure of any scenarios It’d be useful, though.

The system - which carries a $1,000 price tag - is powered by an Intel Core 2 Duo mobile processor and measures just 4.0" x 6.1" x 1.45."

 

[tacosareveryyummy]

Very neat. Price is a bit high though.

 

[Machupo]

yeah, very high price -- but it'd be a nice, small carputer

 

[cageymaru]

Yes, in the car it would be awesome!

 

[Ashbringer]

Guess I wasn't the only one who thought carputer, but for $1,000 I could built an equally small computer that's way more powerful then that.

On that note, why hasn't Toyota, GM, Honda, and etc put carputers in them? This should have been standard by now.

 

[evilsofa]

Here's the Mac Mini Server that also costs $1000. Seems like a better deal to me?

 

[ninjaturtle]

Pass, I'll get a laptop w/ a car mount instead for cheaper.

 

[Smiththers2]

car makers wouldnt know who to use for an OS... then there'd be some shit going on...

 

[T4rd]

Yeah, I'll just stick to my steering wheel laptop desk tray for my car computing.

 

[BladeVenom]

Yeah, I'll just stick to my steering wheel laptop desk tray for my car computing.

LOL! I love the customer's pictures.

 

[funkydmunky]

car makers wouldnt know who to use for an OS... then there'd be some shit going on...

If they were smart it would be a custom Linux. Windows would add to the cost. But Apple OS would be a wave of genius. You would have a built in market of Apple nerds would would rush out to stand in line to buy the new iCar!

 

[T4rd]

LOL! I love the customer's pictures.

Read the reviews too, there's some really good ones in there, lolz.

 

[GishForever]

Thank god for the 2 PS/2 ports!

 

[madgun]

Just stick an iPad or anybandroid based tablet in the car. Touch screen and no hassles about building a small carputer.

 

[DanNeely]

Thank god for the 2 PS/2 ports!

Those're there for the same reason as the RS232 ports. This is being targetted at embedded systems which are much more likely to have legacy IO requirements because the devices they're attached to are too expensive to replace just because of an outdated interface.

 

[m2h]

Anyone else get a bit peeved when a mainstream website tries to put there two cents in about a product that is not aimed at the mainstream?

 

[Ultima99]

Anyone else get a bit peeved when a mainstream website tries to put there two cents in about a product that is not aimed at the mainstream?

I'm not quite sure the [H] audience is exactly what I'd call "mainstream".

 

[Khanmots]

Anyone else get a bit peeved when a mainstream website tries to put there two cents in about a product that is not aimed at the mainstream?

Not peeved so much as thinking it makes them look silly.

 

[phred15]

Serial ports??

 

[Khanmots]

Serial ports??

uh, yeah. There's a lot of hardware out that that's controlled via serial.

 

[rUmX]

Am I missing something? I don't see any DVI ports on it...

 

[djgizmo]

Personally, I'd like to see someone else build a computer that size for less $$$ and warranty/support his/her work for up to 1yr.

For a car pc, I think its great... just would have no idea where I would put the touch screen monitor etc etc. Like others have stated. Better to probably just have an high end Android tablet/device for car use.

 

[heatlesssun]

http://laptops.toshiba.com/laptops/libretto/w100

1.8 lbs, Pentium U5400 1.2Ghz, 2GB RAM, 64GB SSD, two 7" 1024x600 touch screens at about $1400, actually not too bad in comparison to this. Got it pre-order, can't wait to get it.

 

[Jutsu]

That thing would overheat in a non-climate controlled scenario in less than 5 seconds....

 

[Brantoc]

go from core2 to a dual core Atom, drop 1 HDD and ship standard 2GB for $499 and you got a good deal.

 

[dj_spanmaster]

This plus the $99 blu-ray R / DVD-RW, and you've got a decent nearly-invisible media hub to drive that 80" LED and Yamaha receiver. I personally use a setup like this (which doubles as the public-access PC for guests in my house), but would enjoy getting the space back.

 

[Sparkhard]

Oh cool, now have something to plug both of my serial devices into....


This would actually be okay in the right situation like a car PC... I would also wonder how it would handle heat though.

Hell, its 105 here in Louisiana and 113 with the heat index, I don't wanna know what it is in my car right now. It would really have to be hardened to withstand that.

 

[Khanmots]

That thing would overheat in a non-climate controlled scenario in less than 5 seconds....

Jutsu, really?

I've had one of thier older units (very similar design, just not as lightweight/small) in a non-ventilated backpack in the middle of the west-texas desert in June. It did just fine.

 

[XeroHouR]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Vaio_UX_Micro_PC $500-1000 ebay

http://www.amazon.com/fit-PC-Slim-X...2?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1280792378&sr=8-2
http://www.amazon.com/fit-PC-Slim-L...1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1280792378&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.com/CompuLab-fit-...6?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1280792378&sr=8-6

What is the point of this thing? If you need that much more power than above, odds are you don't really need i to be that mobile...or you WILL need it to require less power...

I guess it has the oh wow factor anyway.

 

[DanNeely]

Am I missing something? I don't see any DVI ports on it...

Presumably it's next to the ethernet and USB3 on another side of the box. THe one face they're showing us is kinda out of room for any more ports.