Shuttle D10 desktop features built-in touchscreen, little else

The D10 is a barebones rig with the classic Shuttle form factor, but the addition of a 7-inch (800 x 480) touchscreen out front makes things a little more interesting. Intel Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Duo E4000 series, Dual-Core E2000 series and Celeron 400 series processors are all supported with up to 4GB RAM, and the kit ships with an Intel GMA 3100 GPU, 5.1 channel audio and SATA II support. A base configuration is offered on Shuttle's Japanese site with a 1.6GHz Celeron processor, 1GB RAM and a 80GB hard drive for ¥69,800 (about $648), but no -- it isn't available in the States.

[Via The Boy Genius Report and Akihabara News]

[Steve @ Sep 22nd 2008 12:07AM]

You gotta love this render. With a resolution of 800x480 the windows desktop on that thing would not be anywhere near that fine. You'd be seeing the pixels from space.

[msalivar @ Sep 22nd 2008 2:06AM]

Actually, the pixel density would be pretty high considering it's 7", it's not like they're stretching it out onto a 15" panel.

[Casper42 @ Sep 22nd 2008 3:17PM]

Too bad they used a G31 instead of a G43 or even a G33.

Way to go Shuttle!
Releasing a brand new product based on a chipset that has already been replaced in the industry.
And since they didnt include an x16 slot, your stuck with crappy GMA3100 with no BlueRay or HD assistance

Next time try using G43 and include an x16 slot. Even if its only x8 Electrical, at least then you give people a choice and the same slot can still be used for x4 or x1 devices as well.

I really don't understand the people at these companies sometimes and why they design things so poorly these days.

You could do better with any old mATX tower, a 7" touchscreen and a dremel.

[alvaro @ Sep 22nd 2008 12:07AM]

great for a car

[Flashpoint @ Sep 22nd 2008 12:34AM]

and CAR ACCIDENTS.

[alvaro @ Sep 22nd 2008 12:08AM]

great for a car!!!

[Reader @ Sep 22nd 2008 12:18AM]

Maybe an enormous one... You'd have to bore into the engine to fit that in the dash.

[jbuers @ Sep 22nd 2008 12:10PM]

Actually, it doesn't take that much work to pull the parts from the case and fit them to your car.

[Reader @ Sep 22nd 2008 1:27PM]

What would be the point in buying this then? You're paying a premium for a case you wouldn't really use. Just do what most people do with their carputers and put it in the trunk and route cables up to your dash. If it's small enough, it can go in the glove compartment or middle armrest thing (name escapes me).

[Daniel Cheung @ Sep 22nd 2008 12:10AM]

Should be good for home server usage. Don't even have to remote desktop into the system!

[msalivar @ Sep 22nd 2008 2:08AM]

I was thinking a little bedroom media center. Throw something like mythbuntu on there, and you don't need your TV turned on, or an external monitor at all, to choose your music.

[Juan @ Sep 22nd 2008 12:15AM]

Be good for a LAN rig. Pop a proper vid card in that thing and it might manage to run Crysis on the 800x480 screen.

[Caleb @ Sep 22nd 2008 1:17AM]

Juan,

I looked at the specs for it and it only has a PCIx 1 and no PCIx 16's.... to bad.

[Andrew @ Sep 22nd 2008 12:28AM]

This would be cool for a media server or HTPC. If you just wanted to listen to music you could control it from there, you wouldn't need to turn your TV on.

[Caleb @ Sep 22nd 2008 1:21AM]

Andrew,

Yep. Put a 1TB hard drive full of MP3's in it and a realy nice amp and speakers. It make a nice home sterio! I'm not sure of that low end power supply though.

[ethana2 @ Sep 22nd 2008 12:30AM]

http://i34.tinypic.com/fxqb9w.png

[RikF @ Sep 22nd 2008 12:32AM]

Wow - thanks for bringing that product to my attention. I'd never heard of the mysterious iMac before. It certainly would make a wonderful alternative to this product. Their sizes are so similar, as is their touch screen technology. I can't believe I hadn't noticed them before. Are there other products that this 'Apple' company produces that might be of interest to people here? Please be *sure* to post such relevant information to as many other posts on Engadget as you can manage. You're doing a public service.

[Jeremy K. @ Sep 22nd 2008 12:33AM]

lol
The really sad thing about this comment, is that it's not even written by the real clak.

[ethana2 @ Sep 22nd 2008 12:35AM]

If I was going to invest in a touch screen, I'd probably go all the way with a Cintiq 12WX. If I end up with $1K I don't know what to do with, that's probably what's going to happen with it.
...and maybe even a small one like this would be handy if you could just use it as a simple terminal over like bluetooth or something.

..Perhaps others will find this particular design more appealing than I do.

[hungry @ Sep 22nd 2008 12:41AM]

i use ubuntu 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yay us cool people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
fuck macs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ethana2 @ Sep 22nd 2008 12:53AM]

I never said anything about being cool, Apple just pisses me off is all.
That said, if OSX was available for normal hardware for $30, I'd buy a license and dual boot it on my 1420n.
...JaS' 10.5.4 appears to need some kind of bios hack or something, and I'm not that adventurous.

[steveorevo @ Sep 22nd 2008 1:13AM]

"if OSX was available for normal hardware for $30" then it would be as sh*tty as Windows. Can you even begin to imagine the incompatibility problems? The crashing would resemble a fully 'tested' Windows driver from crappy company X for crappy hardware Y.

[ethana2 @ Sep 22nd 2008 1:24AM]

Quality is not the result of hardware exclusivity, it is the result of a monolithic code base. If Apple was going to do this, I'd trust them to be smart enough to purchase driver source code from every hardware vendor they intended to work with and integrate it coherently.

Windows doesn't suck because it works on a large variety of hardware. It sucks in part because it relies on third party code to do so.

[Steveorevo @ Sep 23rd 2008 12:00AM]

And you expect to get that for $30 dollars? Stick to Open Source or monopolyware like Vista (not that you'd have a choice for a new PC). $30 would hardly pay for 1 software engineer to make OSX compatible on all the combinations of generic PCs out there and still give it the same fine tuned performance that it can have on sub-par Apple hardware.

Apple could probably pull it off at say $230 a copy, and ensure that it would render all the same snazzy 'Aero' window manager effects like it does on 'Apple native' Intel GMA, but would probably not be nearly as optimized from a software standpoint. You'd still need the latest $600 NVidia card.

That misses the point entirely of running optimized OSX for generic hardware. Just stick with M$ bloatware.

[)law( @ Sep 22nd 2008 12:38AM]

Wow almost a little wierd seeing clack in this post. Makes me feel fuzzy and warm inside to see him get pwned tho. I accidently...the troll

[fh @ Sep 22nd 2008 12:45AM]

the whole troll?
you should do something about it...it sounds dangerous

[Nick @ Sep 22nd 2008 12:41AM]

Actually, it is available in the US, and it is $400. Search for Shuttle D10 on Newegg.

[Pikl @ Sep 22nd 2008 12:43AM]

This is the dumbest thing ever. Just my opinion.

[ipubs bastard child @ Sep 22nd 2008 5:45AM]

@pikl
Imagine if you will, this was sat near your TV or amp that. All connected together via windows media centre. Now, without having to even turn your tv on, you can see whats on TV that day or queue up some music whilst you watch your wife do the ironing. Saving power on running a huge HDTV for just playing mp3's and relaxing while somebody else does the housework. Double bonus. Plus the visualisers will look cool on the screen during those fabulous dinner parties you host with those pitted olives with garlic, on a stick.

[Caleb @ Sep 22nd 2008 12:59AM]

This is sweet. I'd love to have one of these set up with a larger screen as the primary and only display on this screen a custom interface for media control or home control interface.

[Caleb @ Sep 22nd 2008 1:13AM]

Interesting. I went to there site for this product (http://us.shuttle.com/barebone/Models/d10.html) and found that it includes a remote also. In addition one of the suggested uses of this setup was for surveilence. I haden't thought of that but in a business this would make real sense as you could have it all in just one unit with several cameras out there. Touch the screen display of which camera you want to go full screen etc. Plus because it has dual display capability built in you could have a set up with like 6 cameras on the built in screen and whichever one you touch onscreen goes to the external monitor. That use kind makes sense.

[ssrat_ @ Sep 22nd 2008 3:07AM]

The remote is OPTIONAL, but it looks like they do not have it listed anywhere, and none of the ones google shows are the right ones.

Just get a "regular" media remote and it should work

[Ariel @ Sep 22nd 2008 1:00AM]

Anybody here needs a 1976 PC?

[Ariel @ Sep 22nd 2008 1:01AM]

(In case you can't tell, it's a reference regarding the similarity between this monstrosity and the REALLY old school computers.)

[RikF @ Sep 22nd 2008 1:14AM]

You are about a decade off...

http://oldcomputers.net/compaqii.html

We still have one of those at home :)

[Caleb @ Sep 22nd 2008 1:31AM]

@RikF,

I remember being amazed that they could fit a compute with so much horsepower in a package so small and so inexpensive at the time. I was still writing Cobol on a DEC PDP-11 with a $17,000 1MB hard drive in it!!

[Ariel @ Sep 22nd 2008 1:56AM]

1986. My bad. :)

[No1 @ Sep 22nd 2008 5:34AM]

The 1987 Portable III is actually closer to this IMHO:

http://oldcomputers.net/compaqiii.html

[Steve @ Sep 22nd 2008 1:13AM]

Is that microwave running Vista?

[)law( @ Sep 22nd 2008 1:26AM]

Maybe Ben Heck did it?

[Caleb @ Sep 22nd 2008 1:27AM]

Yea! I like the idea! Home theater with built in "Popcorn Function" ;-)

[Peter @ Sep 22nd 2008 1:37AM]

NewEgg has had a barebones kit based on this for a while:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856101075

[Jeremy K. @ Sep 22nd 2008 12:35AM]

That's a cool case. But c'mon... a 100W PSU? And I thought HP was skimping with a 160W PSU on their AMD slimlines...

[Tony C @ Sep 22nd 2008 10:12AM]

Time to change the text! $425.19 shipped from NewEgg!

[novel @ Sep 22nd 2008 11:31AM]

Jeremy, everyone knows the stock PSU will never be good enough. jeez

[LGM @ Sep 22nd 2008 2:02AM]

From my favourite Hong Kong company ... 3180.00 HKD or 408.00 USD ... Much better pricing...

[Dave @ Sep 22nd 2008 3:53AM]

I am a mac user and I hate people that do stuff like this.
Makes the rest of us mac user look like idoits and just annoys anyone with a brain.
If you have nothing interesting to say, Shut up.

Might be interesting to run this with microsoft's origami as it would make selecting different items very easy.

[Muhammad-Oli @ Sep 22nd 2008 3:58AM]

Beep... Beep... Beeeeeeeeep!

Oh, my popcorn is done.

[inteller @ Sep 22nd 2008 8:19AM]

If that display was just a Slideshow device built into the case that showed you email, weather, etc it would be much more useful. Trying to pack the entire desktop on that screen is stupid.

[talk2sk @ Sep 22nd 2008 8:39AM]

Ooh.... Celeron 1.66 running Vista... Ooh! I am scared now :-)

Great concept but hopefully they have kits with some oomph, could have ditched the DVD drive for a widescreen version on the side :-).. and then made it the size of Mac mini .. now we are talking....