CES 2008: VIA ARTIGO Pico-ITX ultra-compact computer!
January 9th, 2008 by matt
We’ve been pretty quiet about CES 2008, mainly because the other tech blogs are doing such a good job covering it. However, this is definitely something that warrants some attention. While at CES, we swung by a great little press lunch held at Piero’s restaurant. (Martin Scorsese fans may be interested to know that some scenes from Casino were shot there) VIA had a large presence there and they were showing off all kinds of computers and fun stuff using their infamous line of tiny mainboards. They had a box of the new ARTiGO there and I dove on it like a spastic kid at Christmas. I’m not tech press so you will have to make do with a pile of poorly lit pics 
. We have been ranting about using mini-PCs for years in robotics and VIA continues to push the envelope shrinking their boards down smaller and smaller. With powerful single-board systems like the Pico, computers are truly getting small enough to compete with microprocessors as the brain of choice for mobile robotics. Click pics for larger versions.
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| The ARTiGO specs list. Since I’m incredibly lazy I’ll just post a pic instead of writing them out |
We’ll tease you with the stats first. More pictures after the break…
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| The ARTiGO Box full of goodness inside |
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| The ARTiGO Box side lists all the goodness inside |
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| The Pico-ITX literally fits in the palm of your hand. Wow. |
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| We had to talk nice to the Pico to get her to let us photograph her underside. |
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| The front of the ARTiGO case. |
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| ARTiGO with the Pico. |
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| Back of the case and board. |
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| Some samples of mini computers using VIA boards inside. |
Next up, we got to see something even smaller from VIA!
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