
2 Form Factors
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Advantages
The advantages of selecting a desktop PC computer for your target PC are
• Highest performance-to-cost ratio
• Widely available, many vendors
• Familiar PC architecture
Disadvantages
The disadvantages of a desktop PC computer for your target PC are
• Large physical dimensions
• Dependent on a clean operating environment
• Limited PCI I/O board expandability
• Unavailable or very limited ISA I/O board expandability
• Short life cycle of specific models
Vendors
There are hundreds of vendors for desktop PCs, including
• Gateway,
www.gateway.com
• Dell Computer Corporation, www.dell.com
• Hewlett-Packard Company, www.hp.com
• IBM Corporation, www.ibm.com
• Compaq Computer Corporation, www.compaq.com
• Sony Electronics, www.sonystyle.com/vaio
• Toshiba Corporation, www.toshiba.com
Vendors of bus expanders include:
• Measurement Computing Corporation,
www.measurementcomputing.com
• SBS Technologies, Inc. (now part of GE Fanuc Embedded Systems),
www.gefanucembedded.com
• MAGMA, www.magma.com
• Contec Microelectronics, www.contec.com
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