As seen at CES: Fit PC2 – A media center for the palm of your hand

Compulab’s FitPC is astoundingly small when you see it in the flesh – it truly is a PalmSize PC but a powerful one as, harnessing the GMA500 chipset’s hardware acceleration, it is quite capable of running HD Video – in fact it was demoed running an h.264 video in 1080p. It is also totally fanless and truly silent. The only real issues I can see are that there is nowhere to fit an optical drive, the hdmi port is actually only dvi so doesn’t do audio and the 1gb ram is not expandable.

– Ultra-Low Power Intel Atom Z510/530 Processor
– 1GB DDR2 RAM
– 160GB SATA Hard Drive (Windows 7/XP and Linux models) 
– GigaBit 1000BaseT Ethernet (LAN)
– 6 x USB 2.0 + IR
– 10W Maximum power consumption
– TINY – 11.5cm x 10.1cm x 2.7cm (313cc)
– Standard Warrantee – NOW 2 YEARS
– 802.11 b/g WiFi (Optional)
– AUTO-RESUME AVAILABLE on most models – i.e. they can be set up to restart on power failure
– RANGE OF FIT-PC2 ACCESSORIES AVAILABLE.
inc. 58Whr Portable Battery + UPS, 7″ USB Touch-Screen Monitor

But really the specs are not important it’s just one of those things that when you see it in the flesh makes you go ‘I want one’

I took some picture but I came across this one when looking at the uk site www.fitpc.co.uk and thought it gave a much better impression:-

The model shown has 6 usb ports (2 front – 4 rear), HDMI audio in/out and an ethernet port. They are also releasing a new version with 2 Ethernet ports – handy if you have an hd-homerun and want to isolate the bandwidth.

The Fit PC2 is made by CompuLab more details including pricing at www.fit-pc.com

I’m hoping we will be able to get one to review.