I am surprised that the reviewer has made no mention of this. I have based my purchase on photoshopped pictures and a raving review, but would have been interested to know in forehand what it is that I amreally getting for my money. I am confident that that is true for most of SPCR's audience. Barr...

puscifer, I just saw that Logic Supply added a new wireless keyboard with trackbal to their online-store: ione Scorpius K3NTU Multimedia Trackball Keyboard for $35. (you can find a better photo of the unit at http://www.atacom.com who seems to be the original manufacturer. while it doesn't look as g...

You could go for somewhat of a hybrid solution by using a of 2.5" drive (or maybe two of them in RAID for performance) inside the enclosure and all other mass-storage being located somewhere else on a server, NAS, external enclosure, whatever...

Just a thought.

Mmm, that Media Center keyboard is certainly way too bulky for me... So I guess the quest for an affordable and small keyboard continues.

On the other hand I'm actually thinking of just getting a remote control because it's probably enough to address most of "remote controlling"-needs.

Just got a reply from mCubed:

The keyboard is from Sharkoon and it's called WIRELESS KEYBOARD RF. Here in Austria it costs around €60 which is quite a lot in my opinion...

Anyway, hope that helps,
Christoph

I'm more thinking of placing the keyboard next to my bed, that would allow me to put on some decent (and loud!) music while I wake up...

With regards to the numpad, this is something that I hardly miss. In fact I almost exclusively use it for controlling Winamp these days.

puscifer wrote:Kinda offtopic.. can anyone shed some light on what keyboard it is? I'm looking for something small and handy just like that!

I forwarded your question to mCubed and will post their reply once it comes back to me...

First of all, thanks a lot for all your comments, I really appreciate the feedback! :) The ambient temps that were present when the testing was done, are somewhat unrealistic for most people. Even in the winter my house is about 21-22C, and in the summer with the AC running, I approach 29C frequentl...

jaganath, thanks a lot for the corrections...

autoboy: yeah, you can power quite a potent (HTPC, gaming, massive storage, whatever) rig with those 210 watts!

Cheers,
Christoph

The Pixies - Where is my mind?

Happy Birthday SPCR!!

Keep up the outstanding work...

It's been some time that I haven't been in the forums but I still check the frontpage on a regular basis. Thanks for all your hard work Mike!!

Happy Birthday SPCR!!

Thanks for the kind words Trodas! I'm as glad as you are that things worked out fine in the end! Even though I'm currently thinking about writing a story called "VIA's Odysee from Germany to the Czech Republic" - it could be a real hit! :) Seriously though, your results look very promising at the mo...

So as far as S-Video output qualities are concerned you can't recommend using an Epia-M? What about the sound, is it worse than with other onboard-sound systems? I'm currently using the onboard sound of my P4PE but my next upgrade will be a sound card (probably an Audigy Player) because I listen to ...

Gandalf wrote:Could be yeah. Kinda a shame really. Or maybe they have a huge stock of Erza's left and want to make some money on those first?

That may be a possibility, but if they'd want to sell their Ezras first, then why promote the Nehemiah so heavily?

Now if only I could find a store that sold 10000's with Nehemiah cores. Yeah, that's a good point! There's one thing that really surprises me: MikeC says that he received the board several weeks ago. That means that the Nehemia has been ready and working for several weeks! But why haven't we seen a...

March 21/03 -- A POSTSCRIPT was added to the review about the odd speed of the sample board after reader questions and a conversation with VIA. Thank you for adding the postscript, it makes things clearer for readers, who don't check this forum thread. Most of my questions are now answered. The onl...

I can understand that you'd try to keep a distance from computers during your free time...
And now I'll stop bothering you (at least for today ) and wish all of you a Good Night!
TheEagleCD

Mike, do you have any idea when the first Nehemia based boards are going to be available? 'Fraid not. I was surprised when I read on mini-itx.com that the 1st M10000s were ezra-t's. I had thought they were all going to be Nehemiahs right from the start. Via created a lot of confusion. I wrote to Vi...

Mike, do you have any idea when the first Nehemia based boards are going to be available?

Thanks for answering. But there are still some unresolved issues (at least for me): Are you suggesting that the first boards with Nehemias are going to be exact copies of the current M9000? What would be the point of doing that? As mentioned earlier it would only confuse costumer and create competit...

After reading through the review I'm kind of disappointed. Especially the marginal improvement of 4% in the FPU benchmarks is disappointing, as the Nehemia core is supposed to run the FPU with full speed (as compared to the Ezra core where the FPU runs at half of the clock speed). This brings up the...

BTW: Your sig is pretty big...

I know, I hope it's not too annoying. But I still think it's good to have the most important info there because therefore people don't have to ask me about my system specs everytime I want to know something...
Regards,
TheEagleCD

Hey people, is it true that most of the Apple desktops (except for the newest one) have worked without any fans??? I heard that the cooling was solely based on air rising from the bottom to some small holes in the top part... If you know anything about the strategies Apple used to achieve that, plea...

Now that the Epia Ms have come out and we all know about its negative and positive aspects I'd like to know what you expect from the next generation of Epias??? Here's what I'd like to see (I'll assume (rather guess) that we'll see the next gen somewhere around the beginning of 2004, please correct ...

Did you read the news on the frontpage???
An Epia-M with 1GHz CPU and a new heatsink plus a quiet fan - that sound pretty good!!! Now all we need to know is when these babies will start to ship!
What do you think about the Epia M10000???
Looking forward to your answers...
Regards,
TheEagleCD

IBM use to have a page with some sounds of head crashes and others that are now on the new Hitachi Website . The most annoying and freaky sounds. Horrible. I love to sounds....but only as long as they don't come from my drives :wink: On the other hand I have to say that the sounds I had (from tecch...

I don't use water-cooling, but I'd like to know whether it is possible to build a system which would allow my system (see signature) to be passivly cooled. The only fan I consider to be a necesity should be in the PSU. And I know that a pump makes some noise but I guess this could be reduced to bein...

Hi people, I'm considering making myself a nice/small/quiet system for playing MP3s and movies (DVDs/SVCDs/VCDs/XVID/DivX). My question is whether the ME6000 is up to the job?! Which performance differences am I likely to encounter compared to the M9000? Thanx in advance, TheEagleCD P.S. I'm plannin...

Sorry, I guess that I didn't express myself clearly... What I meant was the fact that I'd have to try different pin-combinations in order to get the different voltages. Or am I wrong, and the pin-mod would only change the default voltage, therefore giving me a different voltage-range in the BIOS? Th...