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Shuttle's $200 Linux PC Part of a Trend?

Posted by timothy on from the love-it-already dept.

eldavojohn writes "With $200 machines being all the rage these days, it's surprising that more coverage hasn't been given to Shuttle's KPC which is an Intel Celeron processor, a 945GC chipset, 512MB of memory and either a 60GB or 80GB HDD. With deals like these, will Linux become the dominant home operating system for the thrifty?"

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  1. no CD/DVD drive bay? by FudRucker · · Score: 3, Informative

    disapointing, i seen at NewEgg a few similar Shuttle BareBones kits had CD/DVD drive bays...

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    1. Re:no CD/DVD drive bay? by jawtheshark · · Score: 3, Informative

      If they start making faster bootable USB flash drives
      All USB drives are bootable... You just need to
      1. Format them that way
      2. Have a motherboard that supports booting from USB
      That's it, really...
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    2. Re:no CD/DVD drive bay? by MsGeek · · Score: 4, Informative

      External USB2 DVD-/+RW drive. Ridiculously cheap nowadays. Problem solved. Thank me.

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  2. Re:Why the thrifty? More like the reasonable by edwdig · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, it's not. There's no optical drive bay in the system. So you can't watch a DVD or rip music.

  3. Re:QUICKBOOKS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Or you could just install this

    http://www.intuit.com/about_intuit/press_room/press_release/2007/06-13.jhtml