2005-10-20

Ars System Guide: Small Form Factor systems

A functional computer does not need much to operate. Most users get by fine with a single hard drive, single optical drive, single CPU, single Ethernet interface, and often do not end up using their PCI slots thanks to the integration of just about everything onto modern motherboards.

Small Form Factor (SFF) represents a newer footprint for computers, one that allows them to be small enough to disappear from the desk, or the exact opposite: often considered attractive enough in their brushed-aluminum and anodized-black finishes with bright blue LEDs to be a showpiece of status.
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