Shuttle, Smooth Creations beat new gear with the ugly stick
By Donald Melanson 
posted April 19th 2007 5:37AM
posted April 19th 2007 5:37AM
While Shuttle and Smooth Creations are apparently both still in the business of selling PCs, they sure seem to be going about it in a strange way, with each company recently busting out systems that appear to be the result of some disgruntled designers in their ranks. If you can get past its blinding mass of orangeness, Smooth Creations' Diablo PC (above, obviously) does look to be a pretty decent system, with a Core 2 Duo E6700 Processor, 2GB of RAM, two 250GB hard drives in a RAID array, and twin GeForce 8800 GTX graphics cards. Thankfully, they'll also let you pick another color if you don't share their taste, with prices starting at $5,000. For those not willing to give up quite so much desk space for so much ugliness, Shuttle's got an eyesore of its own for you in the form of a new XPC (check it out after the break). Available in your choice of three "designs," you can load it up with your choice of Core 2 Duo processors, a max 4GB of RAM, and up to 500GB of hard drive space -- no matching peripherals here though, so you may need to bust out the finger paints.Read - Smooth Creations Diablo [Via Chip Chick]
Read - Core Duo News, "Shuttle XPC gets spring color makeover"
it must have a great personality, coz it sure is ugly!!! cant say i would want to look at that all day
For God's sake.
Hmm, I suggest Smooth Creations consider calling their offering the "iSore"
That things awesome; give it some switches!
I quite like the bright golden orange, but the XPCs look... amateur.
Orange is definitely NOT the new black or white.
Call me crazy, but I think that Orange computer is good looking. I'd be proud to have it on my desk.
SG
Huh? This is like that AOL-Haier MP3 player. Everyone said it looked ugly but it actually looked pretty sweet! So does this thing
I wish I could get the gadget news without the crass commentary of the blog authors.
Try the links situated close to the word "Read" at the bottom.
you can - it's called c-net. me personally - i come here for the crass comments.
I have that case in silver, it's an excellent case, but it looks much better in silver or black. Also, I got my desktop 4 months ago and it has better specs than that, yet it was $2,000 cheaper from CyberpowerPC.
I never thought a PC could be ghetto before.
I see I am wrong. This would be an excellent setup for the tech-savvy pimp to keep track of "employees" and "clients"
You missed the Commodore offerings then, I take it?
wait till you see their new case with spinners!
Overall looks of this system aside, I certainly hope they molded a new wrist rest for that G15 instead of simply painting the original one. At $5k, I'd expect to not have paint wear off of it while looking like I attempted suicide with Cheetos.
i like the eye makes me think a creature is inside of it
http://www.wiiuser.org
for anyone considering RAID0, read this http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2969&p=8
Now available: haning fuzzy dice on each component for an additional $5 and a -20 hit to self esteem.
Also, can you flick the switch and make the ass drop?
Amen to the crass comments. I can't tell you how many times at work I cruise on over to engadget, read a hilarious comment and almost choke on my diet coke. In particular, I remember the robot that thought people tasted like bacon.
The crass comments make it all better......
......and this hideous pc with spinners would be hysterical. Along with the fuzzy dice and hydraulics. Awesome....