The real win of the SMOS cardpc is when you're able to make your own carrier board with the pins you want drawn off the cardpc; otherwise a regular pc104 cpu card is a far superior solution. The cardpc has a couple of annoying disadvantages I became intimately familiar with over time: 1. The bios battery backup is not included, so you have to make up your own solution. My best efforts ended up substantially less robust than a soldered-on-the-board coin chip would've been. And, since the bios is on the cardpc, if the unit ever separates
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