At 5 x 5 x 3 inches, the Stinger 553 is about as small as a small-form factor PC can get whilst remaining functional. To be fair, there are smaller systems out there, but most users would find them severely limited in the usability department. The Stinger 553 packs in enough oomph to perform most desktop tasks and it does so in a nice rugged military spec form factor, with no moving parts.
Find out what’s under the hood after the jump.
The tiny system is powered by an Atom processor with 2GB of RAM. Storage is provided by a 128GB SSD and it can connect to a range of devices with an impressive array of ports including:
1x 1GE-LAN, 8x USB 2.0 ports, 4x SATA, DIO, 2x RS-232 Serial Ports, VGA Video, Keyboard, Mouse. For functional expansion, PCI Express and USB interfaces are available.
No word on price, but mil spec anything is rarely cheap, there is an SSD and an aluminum alloy chassis to make matters even more expensive. However, for your money you are getting a tiny computer that will work under almost any conditions that can be thrust upon it without making a sound as there are no moving parts. I want one, badly, this has XP Ninja Mk II written all over it.
What would you pay for something like this? [CodaOctopus Colmek via Tech Pin]
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Tags: Computers, military-spec, rugged, XP, XP Ninja
4 responses
Jan 27, 2009 at 6:00 pm
I contacted them about getting one myself, I think I am going to do go ahead and buy one and evaluate it, and order more if i like its performance.. but so far from all that i have been hearing about it, i think i will definitely like it.
Jan 27, 2009 at 7:47 pm
We would absolutely LOVE to hear your thoughts on the machine. Do you mind me asking how much they are charging for it?
Jan 29, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Very neat product idea, but too had it is purely “Vaporware.” A colleague of mine called Colmek this week to find out about availability, and they claimed the product is a built-to-order concept, not a COTS product available off the shelf yet. The Atom CPU board isn’t even in production yet. They seem to be fishing for a customer to fund an NRE project.
A scary observation I found on the Colmek Website — I noticed that they plagiarized the MIL-STD rugged switch and mobile router products made by a competitor I am familiar with, Parvus (www.parvus.com). Colmek literally cut and paste the product descriptions for the DuraMAR and DuraNET products, tweaked the brand names a little and posted a mock-up of a different CAD rendering to suggest it’s their own idea. Who are these guys fooling? Wasn’t Colmek in bankupcy just last year? I guess when you’re out of money, you resort to these sort of shady marketing tactics. Pretty low.
I wonder if Parvus intends to offer an Atom-based mission computer in their DuraCOR product family? Anyone know about GE Fanuc or Curtiss Wright?
Jan 31, 2009 at 4:30 am
I’m inclined to agree on the vaporware claim. A shame because the idea is awesome.
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