Shuttle shows off Vista-ready offerings

SHUTTLE HAS NOT been so aggressive with its marketing of late, but the guys appeared to tell us about two machines and one cool barebones system that are about to be released.

Shuttle has had some success in the US market with its nice machines and we think these new ones will just help the success and the popularity.

There is a new media PC system called the M2000, the successor of rather interesting M1000 machine. This machine looks like a VCR and supports Intel Core Duo 1.83 GHz, Viiv marchitecture, 512MB DDR II 533 memory and uses Nvidia's 6600 LE 256 GDDR PCIe card, a 250GB SATA 2 drive, dual analogue NTSC + single HD ATSC Tuner, DVD burner, HD 7.1 audio with Dolby digital support, 8 in 1 card reader, Gigabit LAN and Wireless 802.11 b/g. It is expected in July 2006.

The second machine caught out eye at Cebit 2006. The X100 is a real cutie. We wrote about it here. This little baby looks like a bigger external DVD burner but hides Intel Core Duo 1.8GHz with 2MB cache and 667MHz FSB, 1GB DDR 2 memory at 533MHz, a 250GB SATA II HDD, slim-slot DVD, ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 graphics, integrated four-in-one reader, a silent X120W PSU, Windows XP Media Center Edition and 802.11 a/b/g W LAN. It should also be ready for July.

Last but not the least is P2 2700 barebones that supports all AM2 Athlon CPUs, 1GHz Hyper transport, DDR2 667/800 memory with four DIMM slots available. It has PCIe 16X slot for future graphic, SATA II with RAID, UDMA 133 controller, Gigabit LAN, high performance audio and silent X 350 W PSU. It is scheduled for late July.

All machines are Vista ready and you should see some reviews of them soon. µ