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You know what happens when PCs get smaller and smaller? It gets easier to cram a complete PC into other products that were once thought of as peripherals. Case in point: MSI’s Projector PC.

Basically, this concept machine takes a low power computer and shoves it inside a somewhat standard looking projector. This lets you project the PC display on any white screen or even a ceiling. Instead of carrying a laptop and projector with you to a meeting, you could just carry the Projector PC.

The system can handle up to 60 inches of HD video playback.

According to Gizmodo, the PC packs an Atom processor and NVIDIA ION graphics. It also has HDMI output, Ethernet, 4 USB ports, mic and headphone jacks, and a DVD player. The Projector PC is only a concept for now and may never make it to market.

via NewTeeVee

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MSI’s Projector PC concept packs an entire PC into a projector case

As I was wandering past Marvell’s exhibit at CES this weekend, I spotted an incredibly tiny PC called the EBOX connected to a big screen LCD. The display showed that the computer was running Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala and that it could handle 1080p HD video playback.

When I asked if there was a spec sheet, I was told it’s on the web, but I can’t seem to find any information about this prototype online. So here’s all I know about the EBOX at this point: It’s tiny, impossibly light (I’d say under a pound), and the OS is running off of an SD card. There’s no hard drive.

The PC uses a Marvell Armada 510 processor, which is the same chipset that’s powering the smartbook I mentioned earlier this week. The Armada 500 series processors are ARM v7-based chips that can run up to 1.2GHz.

I don’t think the EBOX is actually a finished product that’s ready to come to market yet. Rather, it’s a prototype developed by Quanta. But it’s one of the tiniest computers I’ve ever seen. I seriously thought at first that it was a media player, not a full-fledged computer.

More pictures after the break.

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Mystery Marvell EBOX is tiny, runs Ubuntu, 1080p video

There are a growing number of solutions for improving the graphics performance of low power netbooks. NVIDIA and Broadcom have the two most popular solutions at the moment, with NVIDIA’s ION platform replacing the Intel Atom’s integrated graphics with the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M chipset, and Broadcom’s Crystal HD Accelerator working alongside the integrated graphics to accelerate HD video playback. Now it looks like there may be a third player: Quartics.

The company’s Qvu platform works sort of like Broadcom’s solution. It doesn’t replace the integrated graphics, but rather comes into play when you’re running an application that needs the extra boost. The Qvu chip can handle 1080p HD video playback. But that’s just the start. It can also do real-time conversion of 2D video to 3D. And even with 2D content the Quartics card doesn’t just play the video. It actually enhances the video as it plays, enhancing the contrast and tweaking a few other things to generally make even low quality YouTube videos look better.

Laptop Magazine’s Dana Wollman got a chance to check out the Qvu platform in action, and she was pretty impressed. Quartics is targeting the product at netbooks, televisions, and set-top boxes. It’s not clear what adding Qvu to a netbook would do to the price, and the company doesn’t plan to sell the product to end users. But it does provide netbook makers with another option for improving video quality on netbooks.

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Quartics QVU video processor brings HD, 3D playback to netbooks