Ramblings from the Marginalized

At CES this year Shuttle showed off a number of new PCs. The one that caught everyone's eye was the new KPC line of computers.

These new machines come with Linux pre-loaded for $199 or in a bare bones configuration for $99.

Preliminary Specifications:
• Intel 945GC Chipset
• Intel Celeron 420 Processor
• GMA 950 Graphics
• 80GB Hard Drive
• 512MB DDR2 Memory
• 4 USB Ports
• Ethernet Port
• 5.1 Channel Audio
• Linux OS with Shuttle Theme

Shuttle has not released any information on internal drive bays and/or PCI slots but you could easily add a USB based optical drive to the machine. The Celeron CPU runs at 1.60 GHz with a Front Side Bus speed of 800MHz and 512KB of L2 Cache.

These machines are also smaller than their XPC line of computers so there may not even be enough room in the case for an optical drive.

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