Talk:Small form factor (desktop and motherboard)

message: Interestingly, the article never actually says what SFF is.  How small is small?  Are mini-towers SFF?  Are laptops?  Are there standard SFF form factors — are microATX systems SFF? mini-ITX?  When did SFF systems first appear?  Why do people want SFF?  Just a few ideas to kick off some additions (don't forget to cite sources). --Mrwojo 00:29, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Well this article title is lower case, indicating that it should be covering the general concept, not one specific one. As you point out there are several, each one often smaller than the previous one.  In particular, it needs to mention that other things besides motherboards and boxes also can be called "small form factor". In particular, disks and network transceivers! So needs to clarify the context, and wikilink to Small Form Factor committee and SFF-SIG (which should probably be spelled out instead of acronymized in my opinion. W Nowicki (talk) 20:59, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  But what is it? 

message: Removed some of the biased crap written by some 15-year old. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.224.144.153 (talk • contribs) 17:32, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd suggest that you read Wikipedia:No personal attacks and Wikipedia:Manual of style.  I wrote a decent chunk of that stuff, and I'm not a 15-year-old, nor do I have any particular industry affiliation or brand loyalty that would bias me.  If you're going to make significant changes to this or other articles, you also ought to register an account so others can follow your edits more easily! MOXFYRE (contrib) 00:48, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kids, these days 

message: What is controversial about a computer? — Omegatron 19:59, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Controversial? 

message: You obviously don't track small form factors very often....or larger computers for that matter.
Many computer cases now come with the ability to hold many hard drives and in some cases up to 8 or 10 hard drives!  Small form factor computers are limited in this aspect with many just holding 2 while only one can hold 4 which is amazing.  Also many ATX computer cases come with 4 or 5 external 5.25" drive bays which is many more than the 2 you see on SFF.  This is in comparison to the other computer cases and form factors out there...not just your Dell computer at work. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.127.44.14 (talk) 20:18, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reply to "Kids These Days" 

message: This page keeps on getting hit by those that want to advertise their product.  Keep the links to SFF dedicated websites and stop putting in links to manufacturer websites and doing things of that nature.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.127.44.14 (talk)
: I don't see any reason why links to a few of the very prominent SFF manufacturers shouldn't be included... MOXFYRE (contrib) 00:48, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I would agree with Moxfyre, I am trying to research the different "abnormal" (i.e. "not your normal atx tower case") cases as I want to build my own PVR to pull content from the internet to watch on my new 52" sharp LCD TV.  All my searching and research up until finding this article was not nearly as helpful as this wiki entry.  The most helpful part was the examples of chassis and their manufacturers.  The only (minor) problem I had with this entry was that the examples DID NOT include links to where I could find out more about the examples -so I added them, as a reference tool.  I'm sure I'm not the only one who has or will stumble upon this article in search of do-it-yourself digital media A/V boxes.
Tylerschwerdfeger (talk) 13:17, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stop Advertising 

message: (I'm leaving this here since the user in question, , is using an anonymous IP address.)  As you've noticed, I've partially reverted some of your recent edits to this article.  They didn't seem particularly constructive to me for several reasons:
* Your edits didn't seem to correct or improve any information, but mostly just to alter the layout and ordering.
* You didn't wikify your edits (they were lacking in internal links and formatting compared to earlier versions)
* You referenced a number of specific SFF models without providing pictures or links, which is likely to be confusing for many readers.
In summary, I thought your edits made the article less clear and useful, without improving it or making it more accurate.  I have no agenda of adding any "untrue" information to the page.  If you have specific concerns about the article content (such as whether "some" or "many" SFF cases have a specific property), how about discuss them here on the talk page before making those edits?  And if you're going to do a lot of editing, you should register an account. MOXFYRE (contrib) 12:25, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent edits and reverts 

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message: A µATX mobo is a square of 244x244 mm : it' not what the picture shows !  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.192.121.231 (talk) 09:25, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Micro ATX mother board are usually square shaped 

message: :Small form factor (desktop and motherboard) →  – Unnecessary disambiguator. Small form factor redirects here. There had been an attempt to make a disambiguation page there, but that was a totally non-MOS:DAB-compliant page, and there is no meaningful ambiguity (permalink). The term "small form factor" can be colloquially used to refer to sizes of other types of hardware (for example, SD cards, but that is incorrect because their form factors are "full", "mini", and "micro", there is no "smallSD") but that is sporadic. The phrase appears in the name of a particular format: Small Form-factor Pluggable. Of course, there existing a page "Small Form-factor Pluggable" does not indicate that the page "Small form factor" needs to be disambiguated as the two titles are not co-ambiguous. —Alalch E. 11:29, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Note: WikiProject Computing has been notified of this discussion. —Alalch E. 11:32, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

text: Note: WikiProject Disambiguation has been notified of this discussion. —Alalch E. 11:33, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 3 June 2024