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Saintsong Espresso - bizarre miniature PC
VIA C3 900, 256mb ram, 30gb hard drive, floppy drive, CD drive, built-in speaker, built-in mousepad-thingy on the top, ports for ps/2 keyboard, ps/2 mouse, vga, video-out mini-DIN, USB. External mains adapter. Carry cover for the CPU unit. Various CD's and manuals, original white box with handle.
The point of the video-out is that you can have it connected to your TV; in the BIOS I think you can set it to PAL or NTSC by default. I just used it with a normal PC monitor.
This is a tiny PC, in two parts. The main part with the CPU and hard drive is about 4" x 6" x 1-1.5". An add-on part contains the CD and floppy drives and it about 6" x 6" x 1-1.5".
Rather a strange device as the main CPU unit is clearly portable, even comes with a soft carrying case/cover, yet it doesn't take batteries. One of those useful-if-you-can-find-a-use-for-it devices, but kind-of cute and fun to mess about with either way :lol:.
There's a few reviews on the web, my favourite one is here:
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/2q00/...spresso-1.html
Working order, have had it running xp and debian 5.0. Makes a very compact linux box. The main CPU-unit case seems to keep coming apart slightly one end [yes, I had a look inside to see whether RAM could be upgraded] - edit: now fixed this, was just that I hadn't put it back straight.
CPU is socket 370.
Looking for £30 plus post and packing, Paypal gift only, buyer pays all fees.
