VIA Nano-powered Shuttle XS29F gets official
By Donald Melanson 
posted May 27th 2009 1:03PM
posted May 27th 2009 1:03PM
Well, Computex Taipei still hasn't formally kicked off, but it looks like it's close enough for VIA and Shuttle, who have now gotten official with that Nano-based small form factor PC that first surfaced earlier this week. Now dubbed the Shuttle XS29F, this particular version comes equipped with the low-power combo of VIA's Nano U1700 CPU and VX800 media system processor, along with support for up to 4GB of RAM, your choice of SATA II storage options, both VGA and DVI ports, four USB 2.0 ports and, perhaps most importantly, a maximum power consumption of just 50 watts for the entire system. That, as VIA helpfully explains in the video after the break, means the system can ditch all the usual fans and heatsinks and remain nearly silent during operation, not to mention let you save you a bit on your energy bills. Still no word on a price, sadly, but we're hoping Shuttle will be a bit more talkative once Computex opens its doors.
Can it handle HD Flash content?
And since its an obvious choice for a TV-side media PC, where's the freaking HDMI port?
AHAHHA!!!
Nokia Press release:
We appolojizz for you buying a Nokia phone.. You should have bought an iPhone...
WE hope the general public cunsumers learned something 2day
AHAHAH!!
Too much freedom in the world...
Microsoft should partner with inwl and IBM... make the somputera AND hardware and anhialate the little guys forcing them 2 sell out and beg for foods stuff...
More crap
Yeah no I totally agree with you in retrospect. I think the integration of salad spinners into modern life has caused a breakdown, and indeed my wireless router of capitalism is like the corkscrew to your baked bean tin.
what took them so long?
and where is the HDMI?
... thought crossed my mind: could it be related to anti-trust ruling in EU against Intel? ...
This is what we used to use CRASH! Here we have the 1st gen shuttle BOOM!
Nice looking little computer in honesty, would like to see some specs as @Fanfoot points out.
I wish there was a quad-core model with built-in wifi, that'd be serious competition for the mac mini.
I "appolojizz" for you being the worst fanboy I have ever seen...
Quite nice system especially that its fanless, if GPU acceleration worked on something like XBMC Live that would make it a fantastic networked media tank player but that's probably unlikely.
FYI Shuttle has produced smaller systems than the XS29 like the X200 but costs a lot of money & the hardware isn't that great.
What a puzzling device. No HDMI despite the media capabilities touted in the press release, but the have PS/2 ports- wtf? And when are these mediapcs gonna start coming with an IR receiver built into the front? Sheesh, they've had those on printers since forever.
I agree hdmi and an ir receiver would make this a no brainer for a compact media-pc
and maybe Bluetooth would be nice.
Does it have any PCI slots? Do they still exist?
It may possibly be a good media pc, but according to the read link, this is targeted towards office use. Cheap, silent office computers.
I wish VIA would partner with Dell and HP for business class desktops to take advantage of the business class support.
These types of systems would be great for basic business computing and much more practical than buying 3.0Ghz Core2 processors for Office, Web and normal application use.
I'll consider a Nano when there is a nVidia chipset for it.