Shuttle's $199 Linux PC
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LAS VEGAS--Asus' Eee PC and Everex's CloudBook aren't the only ones pushing down the price of affordable, open-source PCs.
Shuttle introduced its $199 KPC Linux PC here on Tuesday. The company didn't have it on display on the actual floor of the convention halls here at the Consumer Electronics Show (too late did I find out you had to zip over to a private suite at the Bellagio for a look-see), but booth representatives were happy to talk details. "It's meant for simple tasks," said sales rep James Wonpu.
It'll have an Intel Celeron processor, a 945GC chipset, 512MB of memory and either a 60GB or 80GB hard drive. What it won't have: an optical drive or a PCI Express slot. Despite that, it's a pretty good-looking box, and comes in red, blue, white, and black, each with a different icon stamped on the front.
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Shuttle also says there will be a $99 bare-bones version of the KPC. That version will have the option of upgrading to a Core 2 Duo processor and 1GB of memory. Both will be available for purchase near the end of the first quarter.
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this thing has. Does anyone have a link?
that's about it. It's sounds like a great little internet surfer. But
don't compare it to a Current Mac Mini.
FYI I own a 24" iMac, just purchased for Christmas, I have G4 MacBook, and a G5 Mac Pro...
So, please try not to be such an Apple FanBoi.
I still use Linux for my everyday machine as my habits would really have to change if I used them and it would cost me tons of proficiency for weeks. Giving me no discernible gain in the end.
if you look at the base line products and what you get for the money, it blows the mini away.
199$ + free ubuntu/programs = hell of a deal
599$ + some programs = not that cost effective
last month and bought a bran-spankin-new Mac Mini. And that
pair of 1GB Ram chips I put in must have been a dream. Hey,
that SATA 250GB hard drive upgrade for the Mini on my credit
card - is that unreal, too?
Since my new Mac Mini is dead, I supposed I'll have to erase
Leopard and Windows XP from it and unhook it from my 42"
Sony Plasma HDTV. After all, it's dead so it can't be used for
anything anymore.
<sarcasm. just before dinner, too!>
I bought a Shuttle some years ago and it was roughly those dimensions as well. You can see the lights on the face of the device and they are similar to my older shuttle.
I have 30-40 applications running at once (virtual desktops are my friend) and use the heavy applications like Google Earth regularly.
I would upgrade the RAM, but it rarely if ever slows for swap, so I didn't bother to drive over to the store to get it. The machine is noticeably more responsive than my work machine, which is a 3Ghz machine with 2G of RAM running Windows XP.
So, to answer your question of why only 512: Because it is enough for anything you may want to do.
designed to be quiet, very efficient.
Netbooks do not replace whatever gigantic desktop PC you are chained to work in Photoshop on, the same way you won't see netbooks replace those giant mixing boards in televisions studios.
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