Shuttle has been developing its XPC series for years now and they keep on adding new features to their product lines. Aside from the portability which is great for LAN parties, they have media center PCs to boot — the latest one, the Glamour D10 that has a built-in 7-inch touch screen LCD panel.
Photo borrowed from HardwareZone
What can you dunk into this rig?
- Intel Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Duo E4000 series, Dual-Core E2000 series or Celeron 400 series
- 2 x 2GB DDR2 667/800MHz RAM (max capacity of 4GB)
- Intel GMA 3100 256bit (up to 384MB shared video memory)
- Realtek ALC662 5.1 channel audio
- 100Mb/1Gb LAN
- 2 SATA + 1 IDE for HDD
- CD/DVD-ROM
Comes in Windows XP or Vista but you can basically install any OS in it. Shuttle provides an optional remote control to operate the multimedia functions of the device or you can just use the touch-screen LCD panel. You can hook up the VGA port to your TV in your living room making the Shuttle D10 an alternative entertainment center ( though I wish there’s HDMI output as well).
The issue with Shuttle/XPC though is that they’re pretty expensive at the moment. Local distributor/resellers like PC Shack and Qube offers them at a starting price of Php25,599 for a bare minimum specs of a Celeron 430 1.8GHz, 512MB RAM, 80GB HDD, a CDRW drive and 4-in-1 card reader.
not being a bastard or anything but this is expensive. here are the specs of my computer to show you what computer you can build with 26,000 bucks.
what i got was:
22 inch aoc lcd
edifier speakers with subs
of course mouse,avr, and keyboard
CPU:
4g of ddr2 pc800 ram(1 piece 2 g and 2 pcs 1 g)
amd phenom x2 dc
redfox tga790 mobo
2 HDD:
500g
250g
1 EXTERNAL HDD:
160g
2 dvd writers, 1 lite-on and 1 sony
card reader
ati radeon 4670 series video card
1 philips saa series tv card
1 4 port internal usb hub
600 watts imaster modified ps
it may not be exactly 26,000 bucks, may it be over or under but isn’t that a better deal?! a whole system instead of 1 piece of junk!