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."

Comments

Re:Thanks editors for doing your job!

[Anonymous Coward]

I agree, I've submitted much better articles in the past week, only to have them rejected. Sometimes it's really bad: 1 article was rejected within 60 seconds of submission, yet 24 hours later someone else gets a similar article with less information accepted.

How big IS this thing?

[fuzzy12345]

Given the relative prices of aluminum and steel, I'm picturing something the size of my desk! How can aluminum vs. steel construction represent a price difference of over $100?

Steel?

[phyruxus]

I'm surprised that using steel instead of aluminum would cut $130 off the price. Aluminum only costs about $0.83/lb. Does it cost a lot to shape or something? I'd expect the harder steel to cost more to work.

Steel is stronger so maybe they could use less, and not add too much weight. Of course every ounce they add will cost someone in shipping.

Anyone know why switching to steel saves so much $?