Shuttle's KPC ready for prime time, starts at $299 for a ready-made unit

It sounds like Shuttle was being a little optimistic in January when it promised a $99 barebones PC and a $199 version with a full complement of internals and a Linux OS. That said, the KPC is still a decent deal, with the K45 barebones kit including quite a bit to be getting on with for $199, and the K4500 pre-configured system offering an Intel Celeron 430 processor, 512MB of RAM, an 80GB HDD and Foresight Linux pre-installed. Other perks that are present even in the barebones kit include Intel GMA 950 graphics, gigabit Ethernet, 5.1 audio, WiFi and a decent bit of room to grow. Newegg should start selling the K45 this weekend, while Shuttle will be selling a user configurable K4500 soon.

[Thanks, Curtis B.]

[bonedog73 Posted Mar 17th 2008 5:34PM]

Does Newegg.com know they are supposed to be selling these computers??

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 20th 2008 9:41AM]

Bought mine... $222.42 after shipping at newegg

[wpns Posted May 2nd 2008 4:04PM]

@zargon, don't bother trying to load Centos on the KPC K45, Centos doesn't recognize it's ethernet chip, which somewhat limits the usefullness of this machine.

Sigh.

[wpns Posted May 2nd 2008 5:28PM]

Unless of course, you know how to install:

http://atrpms.net/dist/el5/sk98lin/sk98lin-kmdl-2.6.18-53.1.4.el5-10.50.1.3-12.el5.i686.rpm.html

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