http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/but 99 dollars for this... i have to think about]]>Mar 16th 2008 8:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/Mar 16th 2008 8:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/Mar 16th 2008 9:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/Mar 26th 2008 10:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/Mar 16th 2008 9:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/Mar 16th 2008 9:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/Mar 16th 2008 9:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/Mar 17th 2008 7:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/Mar 16th 2008 11:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/Mar 16th 2008 2:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/Mar 17th 2008 12:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/I am still optimistic about the 99 barebones one]]>Mar 16th 2008 9:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/
I'm not sure about newegg (which is generally fairly cheap on shipping), but I know the shipping on the basic unit from shuttle is something like $55, so the price continues to rise...]]>Mar 16th 2008 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/Mar 16th 2008 10:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/Mar 16th 2008 10:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/People are not going to switch from XP or OS X ro anything but the distro with the most support and the widest range of applications]]>Mar 16th 2008 11:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/
Don't get me wrong, Ubuntu is good. But Debian (what Ubuntu is based on), Fedora, openSuSE, Slackware, CentOS, Mandriva and Sabayon are also good choices.]]>Mar 16th 2008 11:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/I know, seeing as i have a Xandros Eee that i use happily
But the overyhyped distros get support proportional to the hype]]>Mar 16th 2008 7:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/Mar 16th 2008 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/Mar 16th 2008 11:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/
In summation: crappy product with even worse customer support. They aren't called Shittle for nothing.]]>Mar 16th 2008 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/Mar 16th 2008 3:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.poochie.net/computers.shtml]]>Mar 16th 2008 3:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/Mar 17th 2008 12:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/
INTEL CORE 2 DUO E4500 2.2GHZ 800MHZ 2MB LGA775
160GB SATA300 7200RPM 8MB Buffer HDD
2GB (2X1GB) PC2-5300 667MHZ DDR2 NON-ECC

All for $390.00...not bad...of course that's with Foresite Linux, monitor, keyboard and mouse...but still pretty tempting.]]>Mar 16th 2008 12:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/
Unfortunately there's only a PCI expansion slot, the integrated graphics will be barely good enough for typical uses, and forget any advanced game playing. And it has such a minimal power supply, I'm sure people will have to be very careful which CPU and add-ons they use, I wonder if it could reliably support a TV Tuner card in the PCI slot?

Regardless, it'd be an ok internet connection point and minimal media pc with an external optical drive, especially for newbies, if Asus' choice of Linux includes DVD playing software. Unfortunately this is a very sore spot in Linux's idealized (Free) world, for example Ubuntu doesn't support DVD playing (in many countries) without illegal hacks. Thanks, electronics (not consumer) protectionists.
]]>Mar 16th 2008 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/Mar 16th 2008 12:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/
Their website is really creeping me out, what with the bizarre Engrish (SIZE UP THE CAPACITY!), and the photoshopped monitor that you can't actually buy.]]>Mar 16th 2008 2:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/
But yeah, these companies are all over the map. They know that "design" has become important, people aren't happy anymore with the latest crap slapped together in a beige box, but the reality is, unfortunately, any company that doesn't value real design virtues and complete control over parts and software from the ground up will always have Frankenstein products, with design grafted on at the last minute. I'm hardly an Apple shill when I say that, and I don't think that Apple ultimately has it in them to be real leaders, just niche players.
]]>Mar 16th 2008 3:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/Mar 16th 2008 12:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/Mar 16th 2008 12:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/But the CPU Performance... umm...]]>Mar 16th 2008 12:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/Mar 16th 2008 1:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/Mar 16th 2008 1:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/Mar 16th 2008 3:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/Mar 16th 2008 7:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/Mar 17th 2008 12:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/Mar 16th 2008 4:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/Mar 16th 2008 4:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/
and if you don't want to, you don't have to pay for a license you won't use.]]>Mar 16th 2008 5:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/Mar 16th 2008 5:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/Mar 16th 2008 6:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/I'm confused by the fact that on the web site the call this one a KPC and a XPC.]]>Mar 16th 2008 8:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/Mar 17th 2008 12:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/Mar 16th 2008 8:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/Mar 17th 2008 12:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/Mar 17th 2008 2:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/Mar 17th 2008 8:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/Mar 17th 2008 9:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/shuttles-kpc-ready-for-prime-time-starts-at-299-for-a-ready-m/A converter and... heres the fork in the road, you can either:
1. Send both the Digital and Analog data out a DVI-I (which is what virtually all "DVI out" ports are) port, which can be used via a $0.50 DVI->VGA adapter.
2. Discard the (highly valuable and RF interference resistant) digital data and provide only the analog data via a VGA port.

Why do they continue to choose option #2?!?!?!

I'm sorry if you've heard this before. This is my campaign.]]>Mar 17th 2008 12:31PM