Thread: Shuttle standardizes laptop motherboards

Shuttle, a company that specializes in the barebones and whose products have been eclipsed by nettops, offers an interesting novelty: the company wants to standardize motherboards laptops.

SPA and microSPA

The company proposes the SPA as well as the microSPA. The foremost (Shuttle PCB Assembly) is a standard for notebook, among 13 as well as 17 inches, plus offers integration with a devoted GPU while microSPA confined to systems from 10 to 15 inches plus is obviously netbooks (the only graphic part is below the IGP). SPA modules for AMD, Intel as well as VIA are the same and Shuttle standardizes the shape of the motherboard, but also the positioning of connectors and the cooling system of the machine.

Interesting, but...

As for the MXM in his time, the idea is not to allow users to change the hardware, but to allow integrators to make repairs faster and - most importantly - to simplify the creation of a computer. Still, if the initiative is interesting, it is likely to be limited to entry-level and lesser-known manufacturers: companies like Dell, HP and Apple have such teams to design a motherboard without too much problems. Moreover, standardization of the motherboard may in a sense, to standardize the machines themselves and some manufacturers are just some implementation differences to sell their products. In fact, the high-end machines and some models should keep their own motherboards, so that input devices and range of laptops from small-scale manufacturer could adopt this standard.