networking, audio and video, you get a lot for the price (I paid around $280
for mine). It's a great little machine.
'xactly. (I was actually praising the onboard components, not bashing them
(as is often the case). ;^) )
I loved my little FIC systems (tho' FIC never supported them). But
Shuttle's taken the whole thing to a new level - full AGP upgradeability,
heat pipe technology, media features, more ports than the Atlantic, etc.
The initial investment for the Shuttle cases do seem high compared to normal
PC cases, but you've almost got a whole PC right there. You can really
outfit the better shuttle PCs to be absolute top of the line game PCs as
well - throw in a decent LCD and good headphones and you've got a LAN RIG
you can easily carry with one hand.
I got into SFF pcs as development servers (I'm in a tiny apartment). I've
since moved to a large server running lots of virtual PCs but I still love
them. I'm just too anal after some bad experiences so I always use RAID
mirrors for my disks and the SFF PCs just don't accommodate that (yet!).
I keep hoping somebody will come out with a decent IDE RAID tower than could
plug into SFF pcs (maybe now that Serial ATA is really taking off we'll see
something).
Jim Davis
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