Comment Re:PicoITX from VIA (Score 1) 697
I use one of the older motherboards from VIA (VIA PC-1 PC2500 uses C7 CPU - FlexATX - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIA_pc-1_Initiative ) with a minibox M3ATX ( http://www.mini-box.com/M3-ATX-DC-DC-ATX-Automotive-Computer-car-PC-Power-Supply ) powersupply to run the whole system from battery (13.8V DC). The system uses a microdrive/SSD for booting with a standard Debian X86 install.
With 2G RAM power consumption is approximately 25W. It handles remote desktop, webserver, live multiple VOIP audio streams,