Friday, August 9, 2002
Yes, I DO get excited about PCs!
Posted by Jason Dunn in "OFF-TOPIC" @ 07:39 PM
http://www.shuttleonline.com/spec.php3?model=ss51
Recently in a rather...intense thread on Apple a few individuals had said that no one gets excited about new PC models. Boy were they wrong.
I'm the proud owner of a Shuttle SS51G - this thing is a miracle of modern engineering! Firewire, USB 2.0, AGP, PCI, an innovative "heat pipe" on the CPU for no-fan operation. I've been loaned some hardware for the Faster Smarter Digital Video book, so here's what going into this little beastie: Pentium 4 2.53 Ghz, 1 gig of PC2700 DDR RAM, 120 gig Western Digital Special Edition hard drive (8 meg cache), and an as-yet unknown nVidia video card (hopefully a GeForce 4 Ti 4600). My blood is boiling at the thought of putting this thing through some benchmarks. It was a little pricey ($569 CND), but worth every penny. I'll let you know how it works out...
Recently in a rather...intense thread on Apple a few individuals had said that no one gets excited about new PC models. Boy were they wrong.
I'm the proud owner of a Shuttle SS51G - this thing is a miracle of modern engineering! Firewire, USB 2.0, AGP, PCI, an innovative "heat pipe" on the CPU for no-fan operation. I've been loaned some hardware for the Faster Smarter Digital Video book, so here's what going into this little beastie: Pentium 4 2.53 Ghz, 1 gig of PC2700 DDR RAM, 120 gig Western Digital Special Edition hard drive (8 meg cache), and an as-yet unknown nVidia video card (hopefully a GeForce 4 Ti 4600). My blood is boiling at the thought of putting this thing through some benchmarks. It was a little pricey ($569 CND), but worth every penny. I'll let you know how it works out...
