http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/ Engadget Comments for Shuttle's Linux-based KPC desktop gets reviewed http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/Mar 24th 2008 9:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/Mar 24th 2008 9:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/
If you're expecting perfection in everything, you're going to have one hell of a miserable life. :P]]>Mar 24th 2008 9:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/

I just have a ton of other 8.0/10.0 parts littering my basement so, personally, at this point it's gotta be top notch to justify a non-bargain price for a PC that can match a P4.]]>Mar 25th 2008 8:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/
Wow. No way. You can get computers with that much memory these days?? ]]>Mar 24th 2008 9:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/Mar 24th 2008 9:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/Mar 24th 2008 9:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/Mar 24th 2008 11:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/
Floppy: What happens when you have to resort to ASCII pr0n]]>Mar 25th 2008 1:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/




/bill gates]]>Mar 25th 2008 4:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/One can only dream!]]>Mar 26th 2008 2:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/Mar 24th 2008 9:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/Mar 24th 2008 9:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/John]]>Mar 24th 2008 9:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/Mar 24th 2008 9:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/Mar 25th 2008 12:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/
I can't complain, it's a nice case, nice mobo, Celeron-L based on the Conroe core. The listed sata150 drive is really a sataII with a jumper on it (yank that sucker off, get full speed). They use Crucial memory, which I upgraded to 2gb right away. It doesn't have the heat pipe which kind of sucks seeing as they tout it as a feature of the system, apparently that comes with the barebones or as a feature for resellers.

Overall I've tried the installed Foresight Linux (Sucktastic rehash of Ubuntu with it's balls cut off) and XP SP3, with both running as well as the 3.2ghz P4 Prescott that the KPC is sitting on top of at the moment. Seeing as this supports any CPU from a 1.6ghz Celeron-L all the way up to the new Wolfdales, you have some room to breathe in the future with this lil cutie.]]>Mar 24th 2008 10:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/Mar 24th 2008 10:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/AMD 780G motherboard
AMD Sempron LE 1.8 Ghz
512 MB DDR2 RAM
80 GB Hard Drive

Pre-installed: Kubuntu 7.10 + OpenOffice.org

That would be much better in my humble opinion. Now let bashing begin for be an AMD fanboy. In my defines I am not a fanboy of any kind for anything. I just think that the 780G would provide much much better graphics performance. Granted their are few games for Linux that would need it,but you know people that get these will install Windows XP or dual-boot to play some games.]]>Mar 24th 2008 10:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/Mar 25th 2008 3:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/Mar 25th 2008 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/Mar 25th 2008 12:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/Mar 25th 2008 12:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/Mar 25th 2008 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/
The thing is, the performance comparisons are really a joke. You don't compare Linux running on a recent PC with a several year old PC running Vista!!! These guys had to be chuckling to themselves as they wrote this!]]>Mar 25th 2008 1:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/Mar 25th 2008 2:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/Mar 25th 2008 3:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/Mar 25th 2008 4:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/Mar 25th 2008 5:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/Mar 25th 2008 8:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/
So far for the UK, all I can find is one site selling the barebones for a nice [whopping] £99 ($198)...]]>Mar 25th 2008 10:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/
I'd be very interested in replacing my 2.26gig P4 with something like this - lower power, quieter, but only if it were a significant speed boost.

Can anyone comment to that?]]>Mar 25th 2008 10:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/
Hope that helpt some]]>Mar 25th 2008 12:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/Mar 25th 2008 1:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/Mar 25th 2008 4:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/Mar 25th 2008 5:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/shuttles-linux-based-kpc-desktop-gets-reviewed/Core 2 Duo E4600 2.4 Ghz
2gb of Mushkin DDR2 667 Ram
WD 500gb hard drive

That and I'll be using a 32gb Samsung SSD I've got laying around. I should get pretty good performance for a Linux box.
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