VIA Technologies today announced the VIA ARTiGO A1200 slim PC kit, featuring a VIA Eden X2 dual core processor. The fanless VIA ARTiGO A1200 has been designed for applications in the home or office, including home server, home automation, hotel management, media streaming, digital signage and surveillance applications.

The latest in the VIA ARTiGO series delivers a low profile design a mere 3cm high, and utilizes the industrial buckled-blade thermal fin design to dispatch system heat and provide stable performance in temperatures ranging from 0 degrees C~45 degrees C. The VIA ARTiGO A1200 can fit into any environment, whether it is behind a monitor or on the wall with a 10 x 10 cm VESA mount or placed alongside other home media devices.

The thin 24.3cm x 12.4cm x 3.0cm VIA ARTiGO A1200 is powered by a 1.0GHz VIA Eden X2 dual core processor for a fanless system with support for up to 4GB of DDR3 RAM. Combined with the all-in-one VIA VX900 media system processor (MSP), the VIA ARTiGO A1200 provides playback of HD video formats including MPEG-2, DivX, WMV9, VC1 and H.264 at screen resolutions up to 1080p.

The dual-sided I/O coastline interface includes one HDMI and one VGA display port, two high-speed GigaLAN Ethernet ports, four USB 2.0 ports, one CFast socket, two audio jacks (Mic-in and Line-out), 12V DC-in power and an optional USB 3.0 host port.