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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. Okay . . . by cjpez · · Score: 4, Funny

    . . . that's pretty cool, but still, give me a huge freaking tower any day. I don't mind carting aroud a behemoth of a case so long as I've got enough room to live in there if need be. :)

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    1. Re:Okay . . . by foobar104 · · Score: 4, Funny

      give me a huge freaking tower any day

      It's not really a huge freaking tower unless it's at least six feet tall. My all-time favorite workstation is the SGI Onyx 2 rack*. Six feet tall, bright purple, noisy as can be. The Onyx 3000 systems are okay, but there's just something inherently cool about the Onyx 2. It's what the French call, "I don't know what."

      And the shipping crate is big enough for two people to stand up in. Well, for me anyway. I'm about 5'6".

      * Scroll down a bit to find Onyx 2 pics. I didn't think anybody would appreciate it if I linked directly to an 11 MB TIFF.

  2. Re:I would love to buy one ... by m_chan · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can. The SS40 answers your question.

  3. Re:Long overdue by Chundra · · Score: 5, Funny

    Laptops have been around forever, and since I have yet to open one up, it's a mystery to me how they keep them so cool!

    Well, the general consensus is that if you use shiny or transluscent materials, and maybe slap an "i" or "e" on the front of the product's name it becomes cool.

    Now you know.

  4. Useful areas by halftrack · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

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  5. Re:Finally.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hi, nice to meet you Str8Dog. This is Dave calling, just wannted to know when the feds should stop by.

  6. viahardware's server by asv108 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

    1. Re:viahardware's server by EL_CID_13 · · Score: 4, Informative

      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

  7. I'll express my excitement in haiku form... by MonkeyBot · · Score: 4, Funny

    Small box under desk, Promiscuous mode net card, Silently watch boss.