Shuttle's SS50 reviewed

EconolineCrush writes "What's 200x181x280mm, decked out in brushed aluminum, and supports a Pentium 4 processor with DDR SDRAM? Shuttle's SS50 bare bones system The Tech Report has a review up of the latest aluminum cube from Shuttle, and it's an impressive little beast. Small form factor PCs are becoming more popular, and this is the first platform I've seen with Pentium 4 support, DDR, and decent on board video via SiS' 650 chipset."

If this computer...

[Anonymous Coward]

was created by Dell, IBM, HP, Compaq, etc.. it would be laughed off of slashdot.
The form factor is nice, but it is heavily lacking in aesthetics.

Dear /. ...

[Chuqmystr]

Hey guys, I don't intend this as flame-fodder and I know it's been said many times in many ways and I still must ask. When will you see fit to have the common courtesy to start temporarily caching these stories from obviously underpowered sites? The ol' /. effect is becomming, IMHO, more of an annoyance than a phenominon. Please don't get me wrong, what you do is a great service but I think you have a responsibility to attend to this matter. What about the non-Slashdot readers who are just trying to get to these artices by other means and have no idea of ferreting out google caches and such? That's my Dollars American .02 worth. Thanks much for the freebee place on the web to spew my opinion

-DrMPF

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Sit on my lap Timmy! Oh, it's ok, I'm not a priest!
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Simple idea: separate the power supply from the PC

[hqm]

People are complaining hard about the noise
from the power supply fans in some of these
small form factor PCs. The problem is you are
stuck with a hard-to-replace small power supply which may be noisy, built into the case.

Here's an idea, how about remove the power supply from the PC case entirely. Just put a connector on the PC to accept 5V and maybe +/- 12V.
You don't need 110 VAC
flowing into the machine, it just needs 5V internally. The +/- 12V don't need much power, and could probably be run from a small DC/DC converter in the case. But the high current 5V supply should come from an external box. It could be a
big quiet power supply tucked under a desk or something. It seems stupid to keep buying expensive high-end quiet power supplies for a PC.