 "Some powerful competition" it had to face when paying a visit to the labs of the British computer magazine PC World for a group test of £999 Vista PCs. But the Ambros Shuttle SD32G2 stood its ground and convinced the editors as "the obvious choice" when it comes to "a machine that won’t take up too much room in your study or living room."
"On the plus side, its compact design will appeal to many home users," start off the editors describing the "neat design" of the Ambros Shuttle SD32G2 which is based on the Shuttle XPC Barebone SD32G2. Unlike its black twin Shuttle XPC Barebone SD32G5, it is kept in "attractive and compact" silver design.
The Ambros Shuttle SD32G2 runs an Intel Core 2 Duo processor at 2.13GHz which is "still well above the minimum 1GHz speed recommended for a PC to run Vista properly," explain the editors of PC World. The Shuttle case was also fed with a Nvidia Geforce 7900GS video card which helped to make it "a very respectable games machine." Joined by 1GB of Ram and "a healthy-sized 320GB hard disk," the kit provides "plenty of room to store large collections of digital music, photographs or video content." Just as one would expect it from a PC for the home environment. Considering it was installed Windows Vista the editors concluded that the Ambros Shuttle SD32G2 is "very capable of handling the graphical complexity of Vista’s Aero interface."
Pros:
- Compact design
- Good connectivity
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