1 Mar
2004
1 Mar
'04
12:11 p.m.
hi,
As a fellow muller, I've looked into the Shuttle xpc Zen. It has an
external powersupply, a la the apple cube, and is extremely quiet
according to the people of www.silentpcreview.com. Right now it only
comes in a pentium 4 flavor, but they may release an AMD version. It's
biggest flaw is the lack of an AGP slot (it has builtin nvidia, and 2
pci slots, I believe). That wouldn't be any problem if you don't run
any really graphics intensive games.
-Rich
glyn wrote:
hi all,
i'm currently mulling over the idea of getting one of those really small
shuttle xpcs for use as a quasi-portable linux-based audio box/desktop
replacement, and was wondering if anybody had used them before and had
suggestions or encountered caveats/hardware problems/quality control
issues/etc. apparently the amd-based systems use an integrated realtek
audio chip that is supported under alsa, but i'd probably put a better
audio interface in the one available pci slot anyways.
thanks,
glyn