A few weeks back, I was looking for small form-factor PCs, under $1000 with enough power to run as a linux/BSD server. My problem was that I wanted to run multiple computers at home, but since I don't have acres of desk space, I wanted something smaller than the typical tower. I stubled across a reference to the EPC II on the misc@openbsd.org mailing list.

Digging deeper, I discovered that the EPC's vendor, ibuypower.com, was the exclusive US distributor for the Taiwanese company Saintsong, who manufactures 2 models of "Pocket PC," the Espresso and the Cappuccino G1 (aka the EPC and EPC II). The Cappucino is particularly cool, and starts to look like one of those convergence devices everyone's always talking about. To me, it's a platform in need of a killer app.

You can read more about these devices in ArsTechnica's review of the Espresso.