I'm sure someone on this forum has heard of this already, but I wanted to show the masses. Via is creating a handheld called "Eve". This little beast is awesome. It has a 20gig hard drive, along with a detachable lcd screen, and plays PC Games. Imagine taking this baby to a lan! Just plug in a keyboard and mouse into the USB port(s?). Although from what I read it only has 128mb of ram, so the games would be limited.
Check it out
here
These are some of the specs off of Via's site:
"System:
· 533 MHz Eden-N Processor
· 133MHz Bus
· SSE and MMX instruction Set support
· 128MB DDR266 SDRAM
· High-Performance 64-bit DDR SDRAM Controller
· 20GB Hard Drive - Data transfer rates of up to 133 MB/s
Graphics:
· VIA CN400 Digital Media Chipset - Integrates S3 Graphics UniChrome Pro Graphics Core
· 200Mhz Graphics Engine Clock
· 128-bit 3D Graphics Engine o Pixel rate up to 200 million pixels per second, 2 textures each
o Triangle rate up to 4.5 million triangles per second
o Microsoft DirectX 7.0, 8.0, and 9.0 compatible
o Microsoft DirectX Texture Compression (DXTC, S3TC)
o OpenGL™ Support
o Z-bias, LOD-bias, Polygon Offset, Edge Anti-aliasing and Alpha Blending
o Specular Lighting
MPEG2 & MPEG4 Hardware decoding
Port List
The ports that are user-accessible on the Eve Console include:
· Power jack (DC barrel type)
· 2x USB 2..0 jacks (Type A host style)
· 1x Compact FLASH type II slot
· 2x battery slots (as specified as handgrips)
· 1x smartcard card slot (15mm x 1mm slot)
· 2x 1/8” stereo jack for headphones out & microphone in
· 1x 1/8” stereo jack for composite video out
· 802.11b wireless LAN"
This thing is a PC gamers wet dream; at least those of us who have wanted the ultimate portable pc. I'm planning on making a portable PC fit into a suitcase that was gov't issued from the late (60-70s?) Not sure exactly when. I got it from a retirement home I used to work at; they had had a yard sale to raise money for some sort of charity.
