Subject: RE: my own mini-pc experience...
From: Leif Sawyer (lsawyer@gci.com)
Date: Mon Feb 25 2002 - 08:40:06 AKST
$229 @ http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.asp?description=sv24
$239 @
http://direct.mwave.com/mwave/doSearch.hmx?bop=and&scriteria=sv24&UID=&CID=&
Back=&n=1
$249 @ http://shop2.outpost.com/product/3202331 (fry's distributor)
$249 @
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-Details.asp?sku=S45
1-3000
Now if only I had some extra money burning in _my_ pockets..
> -----Original Message-----
> From: FeLoNiouS MoNK [mailto:codered@gci.net]
> Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 8:40 PM
> To: Clay Scott
> Cc: aklug@aklug.org
> Subject: Re: my own mini-pc experience...
>
>
>
> hmm .. how much?
> TFM!
> ---I will never admit i own a winblowz machine.. i just say i
> have a Couple
> of NIX boxes and an OTHER!---THa_FeLoNiouS_MoNK
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Clay Scott" <mcfeelie@pobox.alaska.net>
> To: <aklug@aklug.org>
> Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 7:24 PM
> Subject: my own mini-pc experience...
>
>
> >
> > i figured with all of the talk about mini-pcs on the list
> recently, i'd
> > contribute my own experiences with the matter.
> >
> > a friend of my family expressed an interest in having me
> buy or build
> > her a computer about a year ago. off and on since then i've
> kept an eye
> > out for the most power while maintaining a small price tag.
> she lives a
> > very minimalist life and anyone who's been in here rather large
> > townhouse can tell. the whole place consists of a few
> pieces of other
> > furniture and a tv. this set me into looking for a computer
> as small as
> > i could get.
> >
> > after doing research on mini-pcs i settled on the shuttle
> spacewalker
> > sv24 mini-pc. this system has a flex-atx motherboard with integrated
> > ethernet, audio and savage4 video, one 5.25" and one 3.5" bay. i
> > couldn't find a review or message board thread stating whether it
> > supported higher than a pIII 1ghz chip, so i decided to go with that
> > rather than push it.
> >
> > the system as i assembled it is as follows:
> >
> > shuttle sv24 mini barebones [ www.shuttleonline.com/sv24.html ]
> > 1ghz pIII
> > 256mb ram
> > 40gb western digital ata100 hard drive
> > 16x atapi dvd/cdrom
> > ibm keyboard/usb optical mouse
> > kds 15" radius rad-5x lcd monitor
> >
> > the system does have one pci slot. some people use it for
> pci 3d cards
> > for easily portable lan party cases. i was planning on putting an
> > internal 56k modem in it, but decided to leave it empty and
> gave her one
> > of my old external 56k modems (this allowed for a lot more
> room in the
> > case).
> >
> > installation:
> >
> > i went with win98 se since it's the latest non-nt windows cd i have
> > access to. i expected this to take me all weekend since
> i've had many a
> > trouble with windows and integrated hardware. gladly i
> actually didn't
> > run into any trouble except for having to run back to my
> place 5 times
> > because i kept forgetting things. booted from a boot
> floppy, fdisked the
> > drive, formatted and installed win98. using the supplied shuttle
> > mainboard cd all the integrated hardware worked with no
> problems. had
> > the thing up and running in the standard windows "few
> hours". it's very
> > quiet and after running over saturday night, was running quite cool.
> >
> > also, these are very linux friendly. all the integrated
> peripherals have
> > working drivers. the only problem that you'll have is with
> running x4
> > with the savage4 video. drivers for that are available at
> > http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html
> > there's also a switching utility at the above url that says will
> > activate the s-video/tv out, but i can't say it works for sure.
> >
> > this system is really quite impressive. she's already given me
> > permission to take it to a lug meeting if anyone wants any hands on
> > experience with one of these. just let me know if so and
> when and where.
> > the whole system will fit in my backpack.
> >
> > ~clay
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
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