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Review of the New Shuttle XPC Chassis
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.
But...does it run MacOS X? Oh, wait, never mind.
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I'm sure it performs well but what about space? Upgradeability? In particular I am getting very tired of case designs that have no space on this inside making all repairs/upgrading a chore. Allthought the shuttle doesn't have this particular flaw yet, I am also getting tired of the use of plastic clips and plastic everything for the case.
Why do people want to buy these? I just don't get it. I would much rather have a nice full tower case that is roomy enough for all my stuff as well as not having any sharp edges/angles to cut myself on or curse at because I can't get to Part A without Removing Parts B,C, and D. I mean one/two PCI slots and a single AGP? Sure everything is intergrated but, personally, most of that intergrated stuff is junk. Compare their integrated audio to a nice sound blaster audigy or the integrated ethernet to a nice 3com gigabit NIC. It only has room for 2 hard drives assuming you don't want a floppy... I am baffled why anyone would buy one of these. To me it makes no sense...