any hardware geeks interested in this?

They have this at Fry's right now.. check it out.

----- Original Message -----
From: "David P. Schwartz" <davids@desertigloo.com>
To: "plug" <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 3:51 AM
Subject: any hardware geeks interested in this?


> Fry's got in a cool new barebones box in mid-December called the
> SpaceShuttle. Here's a link to a nice review of it:
>
> http://www.hothardware.com/hh_files/Motherboards/shuttle_sv24.shtml
>
> It's from a company Shuttle Technologies in Taiwan, and it uses a
> motherboard available from from them called the FV24. The barebones box
is
> around $230 wholesale, and the motherboard is about $100.
>
> I'm thinking ... you could slice the top half of the box off of the
> enclosure and still have room for a 3.5" or notebook drive and a second
NIC.
>
> Imagine .... a 1GHz P-III, 1/2-GB RAM, 40GB HDD, 2 NICs, audio, video, 2
> firewire & 4 USB ports, all in a box the size of a 2" thick book ... for
> under $300... not bad for something like a "home server appliance", eh?
> (The ones on the market today are 200MHz Z8 clones.)
>
> -David
>
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