2004-04-02 - Digitalmediathoughts.com: Deathly quiet - for office or media centre
 Deathly Quiet
(...) I nearly fell over in shock at how quiet things were. It’s not an exaggeration to say that you’d need to be in a silent room to even know if the ST62K was turned on or not. Yes, it’s that quiet. (...) Calling this computer nearly silent not an exaggeration!
Deathly Quiet
(...) I nearly fell over in shock at how quiet things were. It’s not an exaggeration to say that you’d need to be in a silent room to even know if the ST62K was turned on or not. Yes, it’s that quiet. (...) Calling this computer nearly silent not an exaggeration! (...) I have a real grudge against noisy computers, which of course means I have a grudge against almost every computer out there. (...)
it’s small, great-looking, very quiet, and comes chock-full of integrated functionality. It would make a great media centre-type PC – put in a big 250 GB hard drive, a PCI TV tuner, and load up Snapstream’s Beyond TV 3, and you’re laughing. Or, if you’re deploying systems in an office environment the ST62K would make a perfect office computer: small, quiet, and highly functional. Special emphasis on the quiet part – office environments tend to be brutally noisy, usually because of the computers, so the stealthy ST62K would be especially welcomed there. (...) Shuttle’s ST62K gets a very strong recommendation from me as a good choice for a personal computer well-suited to being general SOHO computer or a media centre-type PC.
Pros:
+ Almost completely silent
+ Small size
+ Sturdy, attractive design
+ Integrated ATI Radeon 9100 video, audio, LAN
+ just add CPU, RAM, HD, optical drive
Ports, Ports, Ports (...) the Shuttle ST62K offers an assortment of ports and connections (...) The integrated video is worth mentioning, because (...) the R300 chip-set from ATI includes a Radeon 9100 GPU, which certainly isn’t cutting edge, but good enough for most basic gaming at lower resolutions (and superior to any sort of integrated video from Intel). (...) Assembling the Shuttle was a relatively quick process (...) |