Last night Andrew Stiff and I had the pleasure of attending the Shuttle XPC revolution party at the Pacific Palms hotel in Los Angeles, CA. This event was put on for industry media and Shuttle’s partners to highlight Shuttle’s XPC line of barebones and to show off what’s just around the corner. Media representation included staff from Anandtech, Firingsquad, Motherboards.org, Lost Circuits, The Register, and Sudhian. Shuttle’s industry partners included resellers Mwave and NewEgg and many others along with partners AMD and Nvidia.

Shuttle has had great success with Small Form Factor barebone systems over the last year and we have watched these tiny systems evolve from their original barebone, the SV24, to the upcoming nForce2 powered SN41. Shuttle used the night to introduce their new products and to show us how the XPC can change the way we do computing in addition to a very cool XPC case mod which many of you are familiar with.

New product announcements:

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  XPC SB51 - An all Intel SFF, the SB51 brings all of the features of the SiS powered SS51, but in an all Intel flavor for corporations and enthusiasts that demand it.



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  XPC SK41 - The first VIA powered XPC, the SK41 is also the first AGP SFF system to hit the market. However the SK41 is positioned to be the low end version of the nForce 2 powered SN41. The SK41 is based on the VIA KM266 chipset.



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  XPC SN41 - The SFF everyone has been waiting for, the SN41 packs all the performance and modern features of the Nvidia nForce 2 chipset into an XPC. Many users who have held out on switching over to SFF or have been waiting for a better AMD based SFF system can no rejoice.

The announcement of these new XPC SFF systems brings a very diverse mix of Shuttle SFF systems. A SFF for everyone?

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  SV24



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  SV25



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  SS50



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  SS40



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  SS51



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  SB51



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  SK41



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  SN41

Shuttle made a smart move early on in their design process. All XPCs made, starting with the SS50, use the same form factor and many of the upgrade parts are interchangeable between the systems. This means an original user of the SS40 who purchased the system 6 months ago, could simply upgrade to the SN41 motherboard (the FN41) and gain all of the modern features and performance without changing any other components. This type of upgrade path is nice, especially considering SFF systems traditionally have had very limited upgrade potential. Similar to our previous review where we showed an upgraded SS50 with an SS51 AGP motherboard and the upgrade to the heatpipe technology.

Along those same lines, Shuttle has also begun selling accessories for the XPC line such as an XPC carrying bag, a 6-in-1 internal card reader, different colored face plates, heatpipes, illuminated faceplates, and wireless networking feature.

 

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