Anyone who has seen the Toyota Yaris adverts on TV will be aware of the concept of "Big Small". This is essentially a lot of power in a small package miniaturisation without a loss in speed. Both the Sony Playstation and Playstation 2 were replaced with smaller more compact versions, just as the Nokia 3210 was shrunk down to the 3310. Less it seems, is often more. Despite processors moving towards lower power overheads, a la Core 2 Duo, and motherboards shipping with pretty much everything integrated we
still seem to be stuck with gigantic ATX motherboards!