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Shuttle SS50 Mini-system

Posted by michael on from the is-it-bigger-than-a-breadbox dept.

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.

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  1. SFF soon being common? by TheToon · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I've waited for SFF boxes for a long time. Perfect for small desktops (PC X stations :) on the kitchen, living room, bedroom etc...

    What's putting me off is that motherboards and cabinets have been non-standard and hard to upgrade. If we can have a new truly small form factor just as standardized as ATX (right, standard non-standard you might say, but still...) it will be a big step ahead for me.

    //TheToon

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  2. Beware PCI slot lengths and heights! by Ho+Kooshy+Fly · · Score: 2, Insightful

    One thing to make sure you don't forget about is the height/length restrictions some of these small systems have for PCI cards. For many people it may not matter since much hardware is already built into the board, but I have seen people be burned when there old Voodoo 3/PCI couldn't fit into the system! Just FYI. Fly

  3. Re:for the love of god people! by lkaos · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "A man is not a good man to me because he will feed me if I should be starving, or warm me if I should be freezing, or pull me out of a ditch if I should ever fall into one. I can find you a Newfoundland dog that will do as much... What are a hundred [philanthropers] to us, if their philanthropy do not help us in our best state, when we are most worthy to be helped?"

    - Henry David Thoreau, "Walden"
    Philanthropy does not improve humanity. Sharing ideas with other intellegent people truely does improve humanity. Free Software is about open collabration which leads to ideas being innovated and advanced in a far greater manner than a single person could ever accomplish. We succeed as a species not because we are individually great but because together we become great.

    I respect someone who devotes their life selflessly to helping the poor survive, but I admire someone who devotes their life selflessly to the advancement of humanity.
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  4. SV24 a big disappointment by dsfox · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'll think twice before checking out another shuttle mini system. The SV24 looked good on paper, but the company failed to release decent software support for the video or the audio. Sure, they had some creaky binary only drivers, but if you are trying to develop softwrae on these systems, forget it.