[lug] small footprint audio-capable?

[Andrew Hoffman]

Check out http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/ and 
http://www.mini-itx.com/ and http://www.mini-box.com/site/index.html
Your pretty much stuck with mini-itx for the pci slot chances are the ex 
series will do you the best, note you can get a pci riser board to give 
you double pci slots. they also make lvds connections so that you can 
hook strait up to a lcd display from like a tablet pc thought the mouse 
input still goes trhough regular channels

www.viaarena.com also has some good stuff.

-Andy Hoffman

D. Stimits wrote:
> Sadly I haven't been able to go to any BLUG meetings in quite a while, 
> looks like not in the near future either. I have question though, I 
> kind of wish I could just throw it out to the group. How much 
> computing power is available in one single board computer? I'm 
> thinking of an audio mixer that uses a PCI sound card capable of quite 
> a few channels. It does NOT have to be battery powered. Of all of the 
> SBCs out there, I have no idea which architecture, e.g., ARM, is most 
> capable of this. It would have to drive a simple LCD touch screen 
> display gui, as well as everything related to running the audio card, 
> as well as networking (with ssh and perhaps streaming), and hopefully 
> some sort of wireless and a regular phone modem. Maybe the PCI slot 
> requirement means I'd have to go to something like a mini-ITX, which 
> in turn might even have a built in network setup. Extra PCI or PCMCIA 
> slots would be nice because then it would work with things like 
> bluetooth. I could work with headers that are available but need to be 
> wired to a connector. Any thoughts on what would do the job?
>
> D. Stimits, stimits AT comcast DOT net
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