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Review of the New Shuttle XPC Chassis

Posted by chrisd on from the nicer-than-you-think dept.

DigiKid writes "Mini PCs are all the rage these days it seems, especially for the LAN Gamers in our midst. Shuttle Computer has been releasing new additions to their line of XPCs, that have the latest features, like USB 2.0, Firewire, and even support for Intel's Pentium 4 with Hyperthreading. This review takes you on a tour of the newest XPC from Shuttle, based on the i845GE chipset. The benchmarks don't lie and this tiny little cube PC holds its own versus a full sized rig." Last week I put together a 51g from them and was very impressed at how well it works and how quiet it is.

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  1. Shape of these small computers... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I like these small computers, but I would rather see a PC made the same size/look as a standard piece of audio equipment (cd player or receiver size) so that I could put it in with my audio equipment and not have it seem out of place.

    These cubes are small, but they're a weird akward shape.

  2. I still don't know... by tfbit · · Score: 4, Interesting

    why they put the SPDIF Out on the front and the In on the back.

  3. Two Serial Ports? by strictnein · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Maybe I'm missing something, but why would anyone need two serial ports?

    One would think a computer like this would be mostly legacy free. The last computer I built was (using the Abit IT-7) and I haven't missed my PS2 or serial ports one bit.

    Couldn't something more useful have been put in their place instead? Like a RCA/s-video out, as this thing would be great to create some sort of media box. Even a standard printer port would be a ton more useful.

    Or maybe shuttle has a product like this that I just don't know about?

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