When I was editor at ExtremeTech, I wrote several articles on building very tiny PCs. These didn’t offer great performance, but they were very compact, and useful as “kitchen” PCs, or maybe car PCs. They all suffered from some caveats. Some, like the original (Fit-PC Slim were very small, but the performance was just too anemic for general use, though they were useful in certain dedicated applications.
I also built one Intel Atom-based system, using a Travla C156 case. While compact, I could have used any mini-ITX motherboard with that, and the north bridge on the particular motherboard I used had a pretty noisy fan. So when Intel dropped off yet another Atom motherboard kit with me, I wasn’t initially very interested.
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