Wednesday, March 10, 2004
Look What Mr. Courier Dropped Off!
Posted by Jason Dunn in "UPDATE" @ 12:43 PM
My friendly neighbourhood courier dropped off a very exciting piece of review hardware for me yesterday:
Yes boys and girls, it's a lovely new Shuttle! I feel such a thrill whenever I look at new unit, because they always have improvements over the last one. Well, that's not quite true in this case because they removed the front Firewire port, which makes connecting a DV camera harder :(, but other than that this unit looks like a winner. I'm hoping to strip down my current Shuttle and transfer everything over to this new Shuttle on the weekend, and have a review published shortly after that. I'm particularly interested in testing the on-board ATI video chipset, and seeing how quiet this thing is. That's really my only complaint about the Shuttle that I have now - the noise - so if only lose a front Firewire port to get a quieter unit, that's a trade off I'm willing to make.
Yes boys and girls, it's a lovely new Shuttle! I feel such a thrill whenever I look at new unit, because they always have improvements over the last one. Well, that's not quite true in this case because they removed the front Firewire port, which makes connecting a DV camera harder :(, but other than that this unit looks like a winner. I'm hoping to strip down my current Shuttle and transfer everything over to this new Shuttle on the weekend, and have a review published shortly after that. I'm particularly interested in testing the on-board ATI video chipset, and seeing how quiet this thing is. That's really my only complaint about the Shuttle that I have now - the noise - so if only lose a front Firewire port to get a quieter unit, that's a trade off I'm willing to make.
