Chaintech´s IMO-Desk officially announced

In July 2003 Chaintech informed about plans to extend its product list: besides traditional motherboards and desktop 3D graphics Taiwanese maker intended to expand its presence in segments such as DVB receivers, media centers, DTR notebooks (IMO-Desk PC). The latter exactly is worth a separate mention.

In September at Computex 2003 visitors could already see the showcased IMO-Desk, and today Chaintech officially released these solutions marked I651U. Before May 2004 the company plans to release another seven IMO-Desk models to achieve yearly production to 50,000 units. By the way, in March the company is to introduce its SFF (small form factor) models also called barebones.

I651U specs:

• Supports Intel Socket 478 Celeron/Pentium 4 (400/533 FSB MHz)
• SiS 651 + SiS 962 chipset
• 1 x 184-pin socket for PC1600/2100/2700 (up to 1GB)
• Display:
  • 15" active XGA matrix
  • 250nit brightness
  • 16.2 million colors
  • 300:1 contrast
  • 60°/60° horizontal and 50°/70° vertical viewing angles
• 1 x 3.5" ATA133 IDE, 120GB max., PIO Mode 4 (16.6MB/s), Multi Mode 4 (up to 66MB/s), Multi Word Mode 5 (up to 100MB/s), Multi Word Mode 6 (up to 133MB/s)
• 5.25" ATAPI CD-ROM / DVD-ROM / DVD-ROM + CD-RW / DVD-R/+RW / combo
• AC adapter, 100-240V AC, 50/60Hz input; 20V DC, 16.67A, 120W output
• 350x286x48~53mm size

I/O interfaces:

• Front panel:
  • 6-in-1 reader (SM / MMC / MS / SD / CF / MD)
  • Mic-In
  • Headphones-Out
  • CIR
  • Speakers-Out
• Back panel:
  • PS/2
  • Line-Out
  • S-Video
  • RJ45
  • RJ11
  • VGA
  • LPT
  • COM
  • AC adapter input
• Left panel:
  • 2 x USB2.0
  • Optical S/PDIF-Out
  • IrDA
  • Bass/Center audio connectors
• Rigth panel:
  • 2 x USB2.0
  • 2 x IEEE1394 (4-pin and 6-pin)

To foreign markets IMO-Desk is shipped without the processor and memory.

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