Field-Ready Portable Computer with Expansion Slots and Four Drive Bays Now Available

Contemporary MicroSystems adds a lunch box style portable computer to its line of field service, testing, data acquisition computers. The MPC-9000 comes with LCD, PCI-Express slots, and four drive bays for the ultimate road warrior in mobile computing.

Arcadia, CA (PRWEB) July 12, 2006 -- Contemporary MicroSystems adds a lunch box style portable computer to its line of field service, testing, data acquisition computers.

The MPC-9000 is a self-contained, portable computer designed for field service, data acquisition, testing, and other mobile applications. It features a lunch box style system enclosure that supports an industry standard ATX, Micro-ATX form factor motherboard, four storage device bays for hard drives and optical drives, a fold-down keyboard, a choice of 15.4" or 17" LCD monitor, and a 400 watt power supply. The MPC-9000 provides a totally integrated portable computer system ready to be deployed in industrial environments such as telecom field service and test applications. And with its substantial expansion capabilities through on-board PCI-Express and PCI slots, integrated input/output capabilities, and four drive bays for storage devices, the MPC-9000 offers flexible configurations using commercial-off-the-shelf components.

The field-ready MPC-9000 is constructed of aluminum alloy for light weight and durability. Hard drive is mounted on shock absorbers. Expansion cards are securely held down in their slots with add-on card clamps. Rubber bumpers on all corners provide additional shock and vibration resistance. There is a durable, rubber-clad carrying handle on the top that makes carrying the system easy. A padded carrying case with wheels and telescopic handle is included for long-distance transportation of the system.

The MPC-9000 handles cooling and ventilation of the internal components through six intake and exhaust cooling fans. A unique design that incorporates two of the fans and an air duct over the motherboard CPU efficiently expels heat generated by the processor.

The MPC-9000 comes in base configurations with either Intel or AMD dual-core processors and 1 GB system memory. Integrated graphics controller, gigabit Ethernet, USB 2.0, SATA hard drive interface are standard. And if additional functionality or graphics processing power are required, there are PCI-Express x16, PCI-Express x1, and PCI slots to upgrade the system.

The MPC-9000 is available now. For additional information, visit: http://www.ipctechnology.com

About Contemporary MicroSystems:

Contemporary MicroSystems is a provider of industrial computing, automation and control products and solutions for the manufacturing and business sectors. Contemporary MicroSystems' line of products includes portable computers, rugged tablet PC, industrial rack mount LCD monitors, rack mount pull-out drawer with integral LCD monitor and keyboard, server management KVM console switch, industrial networking hardware. These products are configured with host computer systems, human-machine interface, or general purpose server and workstations for production automation, process control, data acquisition, data storage in data centers and the factory floor.

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