Dothan is perfect for SFF

Zap

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Since the Banias (Pentium M) is being sold in retail boxes (presumably for "whitebook" notebook computers) my guess is that the Dothan will also end up being sold in retail boxes. I think a company such as Shuttle should capitalize on that and build a really quiet SFF system within their XPC line specifically for these awesome mobile chips. Power requirements would be low and performance would be high. Cooling requirements would be really modest. Motherboard manufacturers can buy the chipsets to build whitebooks so what's stopping them from making a non-notebook using the 855 (or whatever) chipset? Whatever upcoming chipset to support Dothan should be fully modern. I'm sure there has not been any "reference" design for any of the motherboards going into the various SFF computers except for the VIA mini-ITX boards, so design should not be too much of an issue.