The manufacturer VIA has just added to its catalog ARTiGO A1100. Extremely compact, this barebone platform, based on a pico-ITX measures only 146 x 52 x 99mm and weighs only 0.6 kg. According to VIA, the ARTiGO A1100 is intended to be used as a home media server or as a surveillance system.

He then embarked a motherboard equipped with a VX855 chipset, a VIA Nano processor clocked at 1.2 GHz and an integrated Chrome9 graphics chipset capable of decoding HD video streams. There are also Gigabit Ethernet controllers, audio 5.1 and WiFi 802.11b , and VGA, and HDMI. Three USB ports are available in front as well as audio connectors. The power supply is external, however. Whereas the beginning of May, the ARTiGO A1100 is already available for preorder at a price of $ 199.