shuttle PC's, a good idea?

**rakess** · 05-19-2009, 02:51 PM

Well I was looking for a PC equivalent of a mac mini and found out about shuttle PC's, here is a picture of what I am looking at:

The specs are quite nice aswell, and I could easily run linux/windows on it, and the person is selling it for 120$!!!! Which to me seems really cheap

Here are the specs (his description):
Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz
1 Gig of DDR Memory
120 gigabytes of HArd Drive
DVD Burner ( CDRW too)
KEyboard and Mouse.
Windows XP w/ SP2
Microsoft Office XP 2002.
Airlink 802.11g wireless PCI card for wireless networking
2 usb fron 2 usb back / 2 LAN

My concerns would be:
no bluetooth but I could add a usb bluetooth receiver
I don't know exactly what size it is, It looks like it could be a 10 inch cube.

So my questions are:
Does anyone have any experience with these baby's? They seem like a great fit and somewhat of a cheaper mac mini, probably not better than a custom built install but I personally much rather have a PC I can just fit somewhere and not have to assemble everything myself.

edit: I have found a similar one and the size is: 30 x 20 x 18.5 cm (LWH) Which is pretty big compared to the mac mini which is 6.5*6.5*2 inches, but is more expensive for smaller processing power

**billmee** · 05-19-2009, 03:04 PM

Too big, just like every pc with an AC psu in it's case.

**capcadetjc** · 05-19-2009, 08:23 PM

If you get a barebones kit that comes with a power brick, can you still use a DC-DC power supply on it?

**DarquePervert** · 05-19-2009, 09:49 PM

Only the newest Shuttle units use a power brick., THe older ones don't.

And the use of a DC-DC power supply is really dependant on the power requirements. REad this: http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/advf...iew&advfaqid=6

A shuttle case is abut 8.5" wide, 8.5" tall and 12" deep.
In my first variant, I chopped it down to a couple inches high.
Eventually I ditched the case altogether.

Search the forums. Lots of users have used a Shuttle as a base for a vehicle PC.