A Closer Look - Inside

One has to remove four screws and then pull off the top cover to gain access to the interior of the Netbox. As you can see, it is quite clear where each of the two missing components go. Foxconn has lined these areas with a protective layer so that you do not end up shorting anything once the memory and hard drive is installed.


A small radial fan can be found on the top rear corner. It covers both the CPU and the ION chipset. This is by far the most compact implementation of any cooling system I have seen and also means that the single fan and small heat sink have to take care of two hot-spots at the same time. A wireless card is built into the unit. It can handle both wireless-B and wireless-G networks - plenty for most uses.

Assembly

A little metal tray has to be taken out of the system, so that the hard drive can be installed. While we are using an SSD for the pictures above, the benchmarks are done with a traditional hard drive to keep the power consumption numbers comparable. Inserting the DDR2 SO-DIMM - a 2GB Kingston 800 MHz module in our case - is simply done by pushing it into place.


Done - everything is installed and connected. The last step means placing the plastic cover back unto the device and replacing the four screws.