> -----Original Message----- > From: Larry Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 10:15 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: Desktop Recommendations? > > You also may want to look at Shuttle's XPC series > (http://us.shuttle.com/). They're small form factor machines that are > about 6 by 7 by 12 inches. I built one about 2 years ago and its works > great. The only drawbacks are they typically only have only 2 slots > (AGP/PCE and a PCI). However they have a lot on the motherboard - 2 usb2 > ports, 2 firewire 800 ports, video audio, 10/100 network or gigbit > networking, and spdif in and out - the last works well if you're building > a media center PC.
I second this - the Shuttles are the balls (even if I can't get my sons to connect to the wireless lan). They're much larger than the Mac Mini - but they use all off-the-shelf components, are home-upgradable, feature excellent thermal properties and have no performance trade offs. You can even get a DUAL AMD SFF box from them if you want to have a workstation-in-a-shoebox. ;^) You can easily throw a Dual Monitor card into a Shuttle box. My only real problem is that I'd love room for two Hard Drives so that I could do a RAID mirror (I won't work on a non-mirrored disk anymore if I can at all help it). But still - shuttle is the way to go if you want small and powerful. Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Flash for programmers - Flash MX Pro http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=56 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:156249 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
