Shuttle SS50 Mini-system

Jared writes: "Small Form Factor is taking off, Viahardware wrote a review on the new Shuttle SS PC. In a case about the size of a shoebox, you get Pentium 4 support, DDR memory, firewire, tv out etc. Great box for all kinds of uses like a media box for the living room, file server, gateway, LAN box. Slashdot posted about the SV24 last fall, and this is the follow up product. Very cool." We've looked at some other Shuttle systems before.

Comments

nice form factor

[frankmu]

i bought the sv24 recently as a computer for my sons room. it's a nice size, and has all the connections one needs. i had a spare cpu, memory, monitor, etc, so the cost was very minimal. as noted in previous slashdot articles, it is a noisy machine,but not as noisy as my valinux 1U server. i have to run win98 because of his software (reader rabbit, etc). my only problem with the computer is that the 1394 does not work with the web cam. it may be windows, the via pl133 chip set, or the camera.
mostly a good computer. this new one should just as good.

Re:nice form factor

[DBman]

Linux+SV24=Headaches

If you think you're gonna run Linux on one of these Shuttle mini systems, and you're not interested in having an unsupported doorstop, check around to see if anybody else is successfully sunning linux or *bsd and X and net and usb and ieee1394 and whatever else you might want to run.

I've had nothing but problems with my SV, and while it's fun trying things out to make it work, i really needed a new workstation, not a new project, and had I done more research prior to buying, I probably would have picked up something else.

They are schweet little systems though ;-)

-doug

Re:I would love to buy one ...

[m_chan]

You can. The SS40 answers your question.

I guess now you just have to...

[balamw]

They list the SS40 Barebone AMD XP at the shuttle site.

shutleonline

Not as nice looking but....

[cborn]

The SS40 is great looking but still lacks some important features (DVI, AGP slot).

The FIC Samba SFF P4 kit includes DVI support, an AGP slot, 2 PCMCIA slots and SPDIF audio out.

Have a look.

http://www.fica.com/products/systems/Databook/Samb a/Samba.stm

Check out the even smaller mini-ITX platform

[swordboy]

Check out the new mini-ITX platform that VIA has put together. Supposed to be fanless and under $100 with processor. If someone doesn't sit down and develop a Linux based set of appliance firmware, then Microsoft will fill yet another market. 3D will be damn cheap soon enough and will become part of these products.

Re:viahardware's server

[EL_CID_13]

Thank you, Having managed anandtech database servers for a time (I was part of the initial design team when he moved to a pure db format way back when) I have a little experience in this area. All of this traffic is being handled by two servers with an lvs load balancer in the middle. If anyone wants to chat about loaded webservers just gimme a shout.

Sam

Re:It's just a shame...

[dcstimm]

They sell the motherboard seperatly at mwave.com

8100 realtek = 8139 realtek

[Indy1]

the 8100 is basically the same as the 8139, its simply a motherboard version of the 8139. So i think you can just use the 8139 driver in linux.

If the kernel driver doesnt work, try the driver posted below, its a direct link to realtek's linux driver

ftp://ftp.realtek.com.tw/lancard/drivers/8139/li nu x24x-8139cp(101).zip