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The ultra compact fanless PC market has just seen the addition of a new entry from VIA sporting the company's tiny EPIA-P900 Pico-ITX board.

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J&W has let loose details on its new Intel Cedar Trail based fanless nettop, the M001 which confines itself to the nano-ITX form factor and runs super trimmed dimensions of just 135 x 128 x 45 mm minus the WiFi antenna and stand.

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Details of a couple new all passively-cooled "Nano PCs" from Foxconn have emerged with an announcement soon to follow. The two new models include the AT-5300 which is powered by Intel's Atom D2700 processor, and an AMD E-450 "Brazos" APU powered variant in the AT-5600.

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How small can a desktop PC be without losing any features? Well, that’s a question that Zotac might be able to help us answer, as its new ZBOX nano XS AD11 Plus manages to squeeze in an impressive amount of technology  into the almost pocket friendly 106x106x37mm (WxDxH) computer.

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Following last week's update on the Raspberry Pi shipping holdup due to a requirement by European distributors for the device to undergo CE quality mark testing, it's all good news from here with the following statement having just been given by Raspberry Pi foundation spokesperson Liz Upton on the official blog.

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There's been yet another setback in getting the US $35 Raspberry Pi out the door to customers; the latest of several delays being due to distributors' demands for compliance testing.

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We saw a preview of Giada's Uni-box just ahead of CeBIT and at the show we got a couple of minutes of hands on time with it and there's a reason for the unusually two-tone chassis design, as the Uni-box is made up from two different PCBs. In fact, the main motherboard was never intended for the Uni-box and as such we're looking at something of a bi-product here that worked out to be an interesting product in its own right.

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The $35 Raspberry Pi computer has been delayed due to a mistake in the manufacturing process which saw the wrong networking jack soldered onto the circuit board.

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Manli – one of several companies that is part of the PC Partner group out of Hong Kong – was showing off its latest mini PC at CeBIT and it's simply called the Manli Elite. It's similar to Zotac's ZBOX mini systems, but with a different design and upgraded hardware.

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While certainly not as popular these days as they were going back seven years or more, Shuttle is still polishing off its XPC line of small form factor rigs from time to time with updated units and its latest jumps on the Z77 bandwagon.

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GIGABYTE is preparing another All-in-One barebone PC for market which is geared more toward gamers with its vacant PCI-E x16 slot that can accomodate dual-slot cards. The GB-AEGT All-in-One boasts a 24-inch LED backlit 2-point multi-touch display, while housed inside is a Mini-ITX motherboard based on Intel's H61 Express chipset offering support for Core i3/i5/i7 LGA-1155 processors and up to 8GB of DDR3 memory.

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Giada is planning to launch a new small form factor PC once CeBIT 2012 kicks off next week which it calls the Uni-box. The unit looks mildly Apple-inspired with a boxy aluminum chassis with internals that together are said to pull just 30W of power during 1080p video playback.

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While certainly not as popular these days as they were several years ago, Shuttle is still keeping its small form factor based XPC lineup refreshed with new models from time to time. A new model dubbed the XPC SZ68R5 has just been released which is based on Intel's Z68 Express chipset, using the company's FZ68 motherboard.

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Showing off sneak peeks of upcoming products have become quite the trend these days, either on Facebook or Twitter and according to Zotac's Facebook page, the company is going to introduce at least one new product tomorrow. So far there are only a couple of pictures that don't give away too much detail, just enough to tell us that it's an AMD A75 based product. This piqued our interest and we managed to dig up quite a lot of details on what Zotac is getting ready to announce.

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After having seen Zotac's dual core VIA Nano X2 powered ZBOX nano at Computex back in June, we were surprised when the company launched an AMD E-350 powered model instead of the VIA mode, but lo and behold, the VIA version has arrived, well, at least in Japan. We have as yet to see an official announcement from Zotac, but we're sure this will come in due time.

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