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World's First BTX Mini-PC
CTZ writes "We have direct information from CES 2005 show floor that covers Shuttle's first BTX Mini-PC. It's also the world's first BTX system ever displayed. "Shuttle also had a rather sizable booth with an entire line of their products displayed, as it can be seen from the images throughout this article. Perhaps the most important interesting product they had on the show floor was the world's first XPC based on Intel's BTX standard. Shuttle is looking to make the system affordable, so they have decided to use steel for the chassis instead of aluminum. According to Shuttle, this will bring the cost of the XPC system down by $130.00. The only downside, as some may perceive it, is that the BTX XPC system will be 1" wider than regular XPCs, but regardless, you can expect the same quality from Shuttle."
Please stay tuned for more interesting coverage of the show floor...
...Because we know it couldn't be less interesting than this report.
It isn't heavy enough until I can kill my cat with it.
One class of products seen on the floor at CES that has generated a lot of interest is the SEX (Slashdot-Effect eXterminator) that promises to end the near instantaneous meltdown caused by the DDoS^H^H^H^H heavy loads placed upon sites linked to by that "News for Nerds" site.
"See that big hole in the side there?" asks Ned Farblestrom of BlackHole Technologies, pointing to a 3/4 inch hole in the side of the case. "That's where we hook up a big fat pipe to handle the load. Those Slashdotters won't be able to fill that up!"
You don't use science to show that you're right, you use science to become right.
Geeks pay much more for aluminum because their 1337-masters tell them it affects performance.
Hey Look! I'm playing Duke Nukem Forever on my BTX form factor PC. Thanks to 3DRealms and Intel for making this possible...
Is there a sudden crash in the worldwide availabilty of desk space? Especially given that most non slaves get flat screens now?
First off I can see tremendous fragility problems with monkeying with the screen angle and flopping the screen and the entire computer onto the desk, or worse, off the desk.
I guess you'll see these soon on every desk in every TV show soon but in terms of reality it doesn't really answer much of a need.
So it would have to be at least as heavy as a collapsing wave form?
There are no trails. There are no trees out here.
Just mention iPod in your submission and it will be accepted.
The monitor will be tainted with a special coating
I'm scared.