Small form factors are very attractive for the digital signage industry. Successful media player manufacturers are focusing on developing ultra small form factor media players with high performance capabilities. This style of media players are in demand for solutions such as kiosk, menu boards, and video walls. Intel just introduced an ultra small form factor media player that is ideal for this type of solutions called the NUC.

A Custom Built PC for Small Spaces

Do you have clients who have very little counter, desktop or floor space but still need to get a fully functional, custom built desktop PC to work on. If so, you know the options have been limited. This constraint can be really painful for point of sale (POS) workstations, where the PC is just functioning to enable a transaction and counter space is really at a premium. So what can you offer them?

With the increasing popularity of the Apple iPad and other tablet contenders, pundits have claimed the desktop PC is dead. To some extent there is truth to this, but in a different way than most of these would be prophets expect. While there has been some erosion of the traditional desktop PCs towards the tablet space, more have actually evolved into a couple of different form factors.