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

Re:Long overdue

[Chundra]

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.

Useful areas

[halftrack]

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.