New 1.6 Atom motherboard only 4"x4"

**strife** · 05-15-2009, 12:11 PM

The motherboards are for sale but the FitPC2 is not out until next month they say. The website and there forums say the box would run base vista OK but would gag running full vista with all bells and whistles.

**strife** · 05-15-2009, 12:14 PM

Originally Posted by malcom2073

I think I'm missing something. That's not cheaper, it's more expensive for what you get. Pay an extra $20 (For the full FitPC2) you get a case, power supply, hard disk, not to mention usb connectors (to attach to the motherboard headers. Though that price does not come with XP. That's an extra $40 on top of that, but you don't have to get it.

Basically, the board itself is $20 cheaper but you lose more than $60 worth of other parts?

True, I guess I was only looking at it from my needs (maxed out options). The FitPC2 is $400 with all hardware options but force you to get XP. The motherboard with all hardware options is $350 something.

**malcom2073** · 05-15-2009, 12:27 PM

Yeah, $350, as opposed to $330 from that website. Just thinking it's silly to save $20 to NOT get a hard drive or output options.

**strife** · 05-15-2009, 12:36 PM

Oww..
Forgot about the fitpc2 coming with a harddrive. As a rule I only use SSD.

**jpinkerton** · 05-15-2009, 04:17 PM

Sechsi. That's all I can really say. I'll probably go for something like this next time I do a CarPC.

**Tidder** · 05-15-2009, 05:29 PM

Originally Posted by strife

The motherboards are for sale but the FitPC2 is not out until next month they say. The website and there forums say the box would run base vista OK but would gag running full vista with all bells and whistles.

I find this hard to believe as the Vaio P has just about the same specs, and it runs Vista just fine. Now running XP on that piece of **** was a different story...