Space - The Final Frontier
It might be cheesy but it’s a fact if you have a busy desktop in your small business or home office
Space is a major problem for many small offices and fitting a PC somewhere on your deks can be a difficult.
The other half of this partnership had been telling me for ages that there was a solution to my space problems and it really did take a while for that to sink in but last week it did and, as I said last Friday, I did a little upgrade of one of my PCs on Saturday to fix the space problem. And this is the solution to my space problem:
This is the Aspire X-Qpack Micro ATX tower (sold in some countries as the Apevia X-Qpack) and it’s just 13.8″ long by 11.2″ wide. It stands just 9″ tall.
And if you think you can’t fit everything that’s in your current PC into one of these small boxes let me tell you that the one I currently have on my desk holds 3 hard drives, a DVD burner, a floppy drive, a dual head graphic card and a firewire card and, thanks to bigger fans and better ventilation than you’ll find in most towers, it runs cooler than the box it replaces.
After working that computer hard for the last week I can tell you that there have been no temperature problems and it has worked perfectly.
Not only are they small but they’re light-weight too and come in a range of colours. If you’re here in Australia check your local computer shop (because of their size only certain motherboards will fit in them) and in other parts of the world you will find that they’re available from Amazon (aff. link).
December 3rd, 2006 at 11:12 am
[...] It’s also nearly 4 years old and has run almost 24/7 from the day it arrived. So now it’s time to for a new motherboard. I’ll keep the same processor but it’s going to go into a smaller box similar to the one I talked about here at Space the Final Frontier. [...]