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Thursday, April 12, 2007
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It's small, but is it perfectly formed? We take a look at the latest XPC from Shuttle, intended as a media center for your lounge.
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Thursday, April 5, 2007
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The Shuttle XPC X100 was unique in its appearance and appealed to a niche segment of the market. That same group of enthusiasts may be delighted to know that Shuttle has planned another version. Geared for the media age, we have the new Shuttle XPC X200.
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Monday, March 26, 2007
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We take a look at Shuttle's X200- their latest form factor in the XPC series. By using mobile components Shuttle keeps the size, noise and heat low enough for it to sit in your living room.
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Monday, January 8, 2007
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When you consider that Shuttle's XPC product line is the standard-setter for small form factor barebones, you are unlikely to find an equivalent to the SD37P2 elsewhere. There are some limitations that you have to take into account before you consider buying the SD37P2, but then drawbacks are expected when you're packing a lot into such a small space. Even with these shortfalls, the SD37P2 would definitely be on my list if I was building a Core 2-based SFF system.
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006
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The latest in a burgeoning line is the P2 3700G, which takes in the SD37P2 Intel i975X-based chassis and adds in some other tasty kit. Our sample was kitted out with an Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 CPU, 4GiB RAM (yes, 4GiB!), a single 400GB hard drive, and an NVIDIA GeForce 7950GX2 1GiB graphics card.
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Monday, November 27, 2006
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Inside, things are neatly packed, resembling a notebook rather than a desktop PC. The memory is in SODIMM format, in this case two 256MB modules, which is less than I'd like to see. The graphics chip is an ATI X1400, which is a low range graphics card that will suffice for casual gaming. This is actually an MXM module, which is an expansion method often employed by notebooks.
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Tuesday, September 26, 2006
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For some time now we?ve been telling people that when it comes to computers - small is the new big. By now, Small Form Factor (SFF) systems were supposed to have replaced the towering behemoths that currently take up space in most people?s offices. Shuttle was the first to introduce these type of systems with its XPS line but they haven?t managed to attain the widespread popularity expected of them.
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Friday, August 18, 2006
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The Shuttle XPC X100, the world's smallest SFF may look more like an old-fashioned console but make no mistake, its sight is squarely aimed at this niche currently dominated by Shuttle's own legions of SFF models. For all its dominance of the genre it created, Shuttle's products lack the mainstream recognition that Apple's Mac Mini garnered instantly on its debut, thanks to a combination of Apple's superior brand name and its trendy designs. And the X100 intends to change that impression.
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Saturday, March 4, 2006
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The SN21G5 has been described as the SN25P in a G5 case with on-board video. However, to the end user it often means much more than that. Although the SN25P had very impressive engineering, many readers simply did not purchase because of price or lack of a PCI port or both. The strengths of the SN21G5 are certainly the lower price point (around $300), the included onboard video, the G5 chassis and the included PCI slot. To help differentiate the product from competing with the SN25P, the SN21G5 lacks a Gigabit LAN, has a 250w PSU (compared to the 350w of the SN25P), has a lower specification onboard audio and lacks onboard DVI. That said, the SN21G5 is certainly a welcomed edition to the XPC line...
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Saturday, December 10, 2005
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The Shuttle XPC SD11G5 is powered by a mobile Intel Pentium M processor (not included). Technically speaking, the Shuttle XPC SD11G5 SFF PC is based around the Intel 915GM and Intel ICH6M chipsets, and it supports socket 479 Intel Celeron M and Pentium M processors that operate with a 400MHz or 533MHz Front Side Bus (FSB). Owing to the small size of small form factor PCs, there just two DDR-2 memory slots within the Shuttle XPC SD11G5, so it can support a maximum of 2GB of unbuffered 240-pin DDR2-667 memory...
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Saturday, November 12, 2005
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Shuttle is undoubtedly the master of SFF systems with a huge range to suite every need, but they've never had one to the tune of the XPC SD11G5. Based on the Pentium M platform, this could very well be the most ideal SFF in every aspect, but with one caveat...
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Friday, November 4, 2005
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A couple of weeks ago, Shuttle announced the XPC SD11G5 - their first XPC supporting Intel's Pentium M and i915GM chipset. It is also the first Shuttle XPC since the Zen to use an external power supply unit. It includes PCMCIA slot for laptop wireless cards, Creative 7.1 channel sound, fabulous 'G5' styling and tons of outputs. Is this the next LAN rig, the next elegant and silent desktop platform, or is it the Mac Mini killer? We find out over the next few pages...
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Saturday, October 29, 2005
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There's a lot to like about the Shuttle SD11G5. It's subjectively pretty, small, powerful, yet extremely quiet, thanks, in main, to the use of Intel's excellent S479 CPUs. In fact, running a Pentium M 770 with the 92mm exhaust fan spinning at 800RPM and using only onboard graphics, it's virtually silent; you'd need to put your ear right next to the unit to confirm that it was operational. This near-silent running is achieved by the lower-power nature of Pentium M CPUs and, in consequence, Shuttle locating a passive 220W PSU 'brick' externally. What's also pleasing is the fact that you can run any discrete single-slot PCI-Express card of your choice. That includes, for example, NVIDIA's GeForce 7800 GTX, making the SD11G5 a fine base for a gaming machine...
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Wednesday, October 19, 2005
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Based on the 915GM+ICH6M chipset, the SD11 supports almost all of the new technologies such as SATA, DDR2 for which Shuttle provides two slots and PCI Express which is provided in the form of one x16 slot and another x1 slot. Since this is a G version of the chipset, you have onboard video in the form of Intel GMA 900 and Shuttle does good by not only providing DSUB and DVI connections, but an S-Video output port as well allowing you to connect the XPC directly to the TV...
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Tuesday, October 18, 2005
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The one word that describes Shuttle's SD31P XPC is competent. Just add a hard drive, preferably SATA, optical drive, RAM, and an LGA775 CPU and away you go. Everything works just as it should, and installation is a real cinch for even novice XPC builders. Performance is also good when judged in comparison to ATX-sized i945G and i955X motherboards, and the ability to specify a Pentium 4 Extreme Edition or dual-core CPU, GeForce 7800 GT, 2GB RAM, and 1TByte of storage, should your pocket be deep enough, is eminently possible in this larger-than-normal XPC...
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