Fujitsu's sleek FUTRO S100 gets VIA Eden implant

By and large, thin clients are relatively boring. That said, they're typically dead silent and plenty powerful to handle the most basic of tasks, and thanks to Fujitsu, this one's even halfway easy on the eyes. The new FUTRO S100 was revealed today, complete with a 500MHz VIA Eden ULV processor that enables the entire system to suck down just 11 watts under full load. Other specs include 1GB of DDR2 memory, a pair of USB 2.0 connectors, VGA output, Ethernet, a VX800 media processor, Chrome9 HC3 graphics and internal CF-based storage support. There's nary a mention of price, but it's ready to ship today for those with the correct change.

[Via HotHardware]

Gallery: Fujitsu's sleek FUTRO S100 gets VIA Eden implant

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[Provost @ Jul 18th 2009 5:22AM]

dosnt the usb port use more the 11 watts?

[Alex @ Jul 18th 2009 7:41AM]

USB is 5v @ 100mA for one "load unit." Devices can request high-power mode and draw upto 500mA, 900 in USB3. 5v@900mA is only ~4.5watts, but the keyboard and mouse you'd likely to be plugging in won't draw the full 100mA in most cases.

Which is all besides the point. You don't measure a devices power consumption based on all ports having power sucking peripherals attached.

[10minutehobo @ Jul 18th 2009 7:30AM]

Nice1

[Jonny @ Jul 18th 2009 8:24AM]

It may sound like a great idea on paper, but this things gonna run horribly.

When I worked for Circuit City, our terminals were 1GHz VIA processors, about the same exact specs as this except 1GHz over 500MHz.

Scrolling in webpages was jumpy, and the entire performance of the machine was sluggish at best.

[Alex @ Jul 18th 2009 8:40AM]

In an office where I worked we had almost thin systems, very little running on the actual hardware. They were 2.8Ghz Pentium IV machines (Compaq Evo). They were slower than my phone at rendering and scrolling web pages.

I would have really hoped that Engadget commenter know better than "More Mhz = better." I have an 800Mhz fan less Eden system. I boot it from PXE and use it as a kitchen top system. It's fine for borrowing and email under X.

[10minutehobo @ Jul 18th 2009 1:03PM]

Alex.

You're definitely doing something wrong with the PIVs.

[lawyer bird @ Jul 18th 2009 2:49PM]

I have an old desktop with a P4 at 2.8 GHz and only half a gig of ram and it still surfs the web great. It also games decently with stuff as recent as COD4. What are you doing to your system?

[GBeatzRecrds @ Jul 18th 2009 6:10PM]

Alex, you're doing it wrong.

My 3GHz P4 handles everyday/officework perfectly.
It also does audio-editing very well.
It also runs Crysis on low at ~25fps with a 7600GT combo'ed with it.

Something's wrong with your machine.

[ncb1397 @ Jul 18th 2009 7:56PM]

It has nothing to do with his machine. How thin clients usually deal with web-browsing (say, under RDP) is they turn the webpage into an image and send it over the network. This process is usually a network bottleneck, not a thin client bottleneck. It is completely feasible that a 500mhz machine will run thin client web browsing as well (or nearly as well) as a machine twice as powerful on the cpu side.

[John @ Jul 18th 2009 10:29PM]

Definitely not the P4s causing the problem here. While I don't have a 2.8GHz P4 around, I do have a a couple 3GHz range ones here and they work fine for browsing. One has 2GB RAM, the other has 512MB... definitely a congestion issue. That said, a 500MHz processor isn't something I would want, even for 11 watts, soo...

[trashmymail @ Jul 18th 2009 8:40AM]

Ok, I’ve read the headline, the narrative description, and the current list of posted comments. However, I have no idea what this product is, or what it does.
Regards,

[Jason @ Jul 18th 2009 9:34AM]

It's a midrange pro-sumer DSLR.

[Alex @ Jul 18th 2009 9:51AM]

It's a small computer. It does what every you make it do. It has a 500Mhz CPU and 1GB or main RAM. Is has Ethernet, VGA, two USBs and likely some RS232 ports that aren't mentioned. It doesn't look horrible. The scope of actual use is a little large to describe here though.

[Michael @ Jul 18th 2009 9:10PM]

It's a thin client. The machine is nothing more than a frontend for a powerful server running somewhere else- think of it as a modern computer terminal.

[ml2 @ Jul 18th 2009 12:35PM]

I'd like to build some 'photo' frames using LCD monitors and a minipc like this or similar.

The question i have is can anyone recomend some software to upload to 'manage the central server' but also handle the photo display etc on the other end?