The P4 systems I remember from that era had heat sinks that were taller than that case. I had a housemate with a P4 laptop (terrible battery life and loud fans), so it’s possible that this uses a mobile part. I think 2.8GHz ones still required RAMBUS memory, which also generated a lot of heat.
I always wondered at the old “computer in the keyboard” form factor and why I never saw attempts to carry it forward into the 32-bit era. I guess there actually were attempts. :)
A little bit of fleaBay searching suggests to me that even if Cybernet are no longer making computer-in-the-keyboard devices, they still were much more recently than this: the ZPC-H6 has an LGA 1155 socket (Sandy Bridge/Ivy Bridge), and supports up to 16GB of RAM.
Everyone’s talking about how amazing it is that you can stuff a computer inside a keyboard, while the real pity is that we ever had to live through a dark age of computing when we took the keyboard out of the computer.
I’m surprised with the proliferation of large memory embedded systems that we don’t see these all the time. Wonder if the raspberry pi 400 keyboard didn’t sell well?
I’m amazed that you could fit the cooling for a P4 in that case.
Same. Having an external power supply probably helps. Alas, no word in the article about whether it sounds like a jet engine when you turn it on.
The P4 systems I remember from that era had heat sinks that were taller than that case. I had a housemate with a P4 laptop (terrible battery life and loud fans), so it’s possible that this uses a mobile part. I think 2.8GHz ones still required RAMBUS memory, which also generated a lot of heat.
Neat!
I always wondered at the old “computer in the keyboard” form factor and why I never saw attempts to carry it forward into the 32-bit era. I guess there actually were attempts. :)
More of a niche, but it exists, e.g. http://www.orangepi.org/html/hardWare/computerAndMicrocontrollers/details/orange-pi-800.html
A little bit of fleaBay searching suggests to me that even if Cybernet are no longer making computer-in-the-keyboard devices, they still were much more recently than this: the ZPC-H6 has an LGA 1155 socket (Sandy Bridge/Ivy Bridge), and supports up to 16GB of RAM.
Everyone’s talking about how amazing it is that you can stuff a computer inside a keyboard, while the real pity is that we ever had to live through a dark age of computing when we took the keyboard out of the computer.
I’m surprised with the proliferation of large memory embedded systems that we don’t see these all the time. Wonder if the raspberry pi 400 keyboard didn’t sell well?