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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.
But actually I like the way it looks. It would have been nice if it included USB 2.0 instead tho...
Do a google search before posting.
I use Mandrake 8.1 with Ximian Gnome 1.4 (1 Gig proc., 512 RAM) on my Spacewalker that I built a couple of months ago... that and a nice (and cheap) Samsung LCD display, and I've got a small, fast, reliable and easy-to-use little station for email, web surfing, etc... (not to mention small home server) in the living room that takes up very little space. Given the price of equipment and the GPL software, its a very cheap and fast PC that fits perfectly in an entertainment room.
Other useful areas are:
* Hack it to become a car media player with full featured video and dvd player.
- Why: it would fit easily in a car. Fun. Games possible.
- How: embedd small LCD's into the back of the seats.
* Controll device for robots.
- Why: robots are cool. Easy to program. Cheap CPU-power.
- How: simple relay control using the FireWire, USB or serial interfaces.
* Use it for anything you'd like:
- Why: it's a regular computer. Computers aren't tools. Tools are built for a purpose and purpose means you're locked at a target. Hammers are used to hammer nails, kettles; to cook potatos in, computers; to do anything.
Look a monkey!
I'm right there with you. Even some of the corporate small form factor machines (vectra/deskpro) lack a real AGP slot. In my mind, this is a tragedy, as I'll never be able to build what I've been wanting to build for a long time now.....mounting suspense...."THE ULTIMATE GAME CONSOLE"
Anyone else impressed with how well this site is taking on the traffic of slashdot? Usually niche sites like viahardware go down in an instant or slow down to a crawl especially when the review is so graphics intensive. My congrats go out to Viahardware.com's sysadmin, we have have been defeated.
Am I the only one who would rather have a socket 370 version? Or even better, socket A?
I'm not sure about the p4 stuff just yet. (Guess I'll have to stick with the SV24?) And while I'm wishing, how about dual NICs? And a $9.95 price tag? And a...
Don't sweat the petty things. But do pet the sweaty things.
by losing the floppy disk bay. Who uses floppy disks anymore anyway?
.. dunnno why not)
Replace that with a 2x20 LCD screen, though, and maybe you could keep it. (Although Matrix Orbital and Crystal Fontz don't seem to make LCDs for the floppy bay
Tuus crepidae innexilis sunt.
Well they almost got it right. the memory should have been DDR or Rambus.
The shuttle cases use flex-atx motherboards and mounts, it is a standard just not one that is widely used by other companies. I searched around and found about 3-4 flex-atx form factor mobos, most of which have less functionality than the shuttle boards.
-- Patience is a virtue, but impatience is an art.
For those of you looking for a REALLY small system, check out the Nano Module from Nano Systems (a small Swedish start-up).
It's a Pentium 266-class PC in a 5.25"-size package, containing:
It's powered by a small 12V laptop power supply. No fans. It's definitely not for the 3D game boys in the crowd, but for embedded use or a firewall/mail gateway/proxy/whatever it's close to perfect.
It's so small you can put it in one of the 5.25" bays of your computer while developing. It even has a connector so you can power it from the PC power supply.
I bought one a couple of weeks ago, and it's sweet. Here is a picture of the internals.