I know. It’s a half wide type B based on ITX. Embedded boards have long been jumpy; literally. Deciding between (now high) peripheral and small socket on embedded Mobos has confused everyone since day one. Most fall onto a wide shelf that sits between small socket (as a full board with soldered CPU) and peripheral. They’re usually better in value with the addition of the CPU to the board, but not always. The are also not condensed enough to be laptop boards. Further disruption comes in that embedded boards will often have lower specs, thus less material; hence lower material value.
It’s purely experience and purely a guess. For one very large product class that has always given me some issue in grading classes. It’s now getting even more difficult with the cube and book box computers being so prevalent. HP thin clients (laptop) vs Dell (small socket) vs Asus and a Falcon cubes (high telco).
And then we have the Mac Mini (peripheral or low telco or laptop, or high telco). Who’s model, specs, and version covers many class variants. What to do with the Apple TVs (1&2 are peripheral, newer low telco), and modern game systems? The switch is obviously high telco. The Wii U low. We’re currently debating on the original Wii. The original One X is peripheral but when one pops up the newest One X Pro will likely be low or High Telco depending on revisions. Same issue with the PS4.
A few years ago the flat rule worked: game systems were peripheral here’s the exceptions. I recently opened up a GX2 and immediately thought cell phone class if I scraped it. It’s a high end European portable emulator game system. Not to many of them since they were quickly declared illegal but it tells me there’s lots of ‘now-what’ stuff put out there recently that’s going to change things a bit. No doubt when you look at the Wii controller which pops out a high telco and low telco board with some lower value stuff. That’s a game controller!
So everyone can look forward to me stumbling around in the near future since I’m already getting tripped up with some things with the peripheral split. I’ve already call Chris’s 3 times since October regarding motherboard shifts. There’s gonna be a few more in the coming months.
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