"Just watch where you're pluggin' that CAT 5, partner."
Posted on 06/25/2007 10:38:31 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Containing all the electronics needed to run as a low- to medium-power PC, the Jack PC, as its name suggests, will fit into a standard size wall socket. The entire PC sits on two layered circuitboards. It contains an AMD RISC processor to help reduce power consumption and heat output.
According to Jade Integration's managing director, Andy MacLellan, low power was one of the big breakthroughs achieved with the Jack PC. "A regular PC will use 80 Watts or more of power, and this only uses 5 Watts. That makes a big difference to the cost of running it, as well as other things."
The device was developed by Chip PC Technologies, a company that specialises in what it calls "post-PC technologies". According to MacLellan, Chip PC Technologies created the first Jack PC over a year ago and has been working on perfecting it since then. The University of Northumbria was one of the first organisations to take delivery of the device.
"This can be used as a standard PC on standard power," MacLellan told ZDNet UK, "or it can be used with power-over-Ethernet, and that really makes it efficient."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.zdnet.co.uk ...
Flash memory and an AMD processor...ethernet connection....
"Just watch where you're pluggin' that CAT 5, partner."
For info.
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The JackPC is a computer the size of a traditional network wallport. By making use of thin-client technology it avoids the need for an internal hard drive and other components associated with traditional PCs. Jade Integration have carried out extensive testing of the units and we can hardly believe our own eyes. The performance is phenomenal, display quality is crystal clear using any standard monitor and the unit itself is barely bigger than the 13 amp plug powering your current PC!
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Pretty cool and could significantly advance the use of thin clients depending, of course, on the cost.
How long till someone gets bsd or Linux running on it with RDP.
Not long. The company I used to work for put an entire distro, with network control on ARM processors with only 32M RAM. They’ve since upped it to 64M due to some other considerations.
They could have done even better by putting in a DVI port rather than the 20 year-old VGA connector.
So how do they label the power switch?
Jack on /Jack off?
LOL!
Careful now....
Kiddies view this site.
It’s one of the variations.
Good news. I can see a need for other variations, too. In some cases you might as well power it from the wall and put a couple power outlets on it. Then you can use one chunk of cable wrap from this to the user's desk. Nice, clean install.
bump
“is equivalent to a 1.2GHz x86. It can come with up to 64MB of flash memory and 128MB RAM.”
Meh - it’s crap.
Check out the EPIA PicoITX boards:
http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/motherboards.jsp?motherboard_id=472
Powered by the 1GHz VIA C7 processor and supporting up to 1GB of DDR2 533 SO-DIMM system memory, the 10-layer VIA EPIA PX mainboard is based on the single-chip VIA VX700 system media processor, which boasts the VIA UniChrome Pro II IGP 3D/2D graphics core, MPEG-2/-4 and WMV9 hardware decoding acceleration and display flexibility. The onboard VIA VT1708A HD audio codec also contributes a rich entertainment experience.
This highly power efficient board runs standard productivity and multimedia applications at under 13 watts, thanks to the combination of VIA’s energy efficient processor and core logic platform and the significantly lower power DDR2 system memory.
The VIA EPIA PX Pico-ITX mainboard also supports flexible hard drive storage options, with one SATA and one UltraDMA 133 connector, as well as 10/100Mbps Fast Ethernet through the RJ-45 LAN port, an LVDS/DVI connector and extensive connectivity options including USB2.0, COM and PS2. A multimedia connector supports external TV-out, video capture port interface & LPC interface (an add-on card is required), while an audio connector supports line-out, line-in, mic-in, S/PDIF in & 7.1 channel audio output.
I want one...
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