Never underestimate the power of miniaturization. This sucker can rock a Core2 Duo E6700 and 2 gigs of decent RAM, with room for four USB slots, two SATA ports, and audio and ethernet onboard. They call it barebone, they call it mini, but that’s probably a more dangerous system than some of our readers have.
It should be mighty cheap, too — boxes start at $99, or the price you pay for the black paint on your MacBook. If you get a Drobo (also boxy) you can sit them next to each other and they’ll look like siblings. I’d invest in a bigger PSU, though. The default 100W sounds a little weak.
Shuttle announces K45 mini-PC barebone, and systems shipping with Linux [Digitimes, via TechFresh]
Good Lord, learn a little bit about it before you write about it.
It isn’t Micro-ATX. It’s a proprietary Shuttle form-factor.
You can’t put a bigger power supply in it because it is proprietary. You don’t NEED a bigger power supply anyway, with no expansion slots (so no video card, integrated video only) and no optical drive inboard, the 100W supply is enough.
True on the form factor, I’ve corrected that. But I figure they basically just contort a micro-ATX board until it fits in there.
I was just concerned about the power supply because 100W doesn’t seem like enough to run a socket 775 Core2 duo with 2 SATAs and 4 USB 2.0s. I’d think it’d be hitting the power ceiling.