2005-03-02 - Digital World: "Shuttle at the top of the performance group"

"Easy handling is the clincher in living rooms because you don't want to seek for buttons or get lost in menus in semidarkness." The german multimedia magazine "Digital World" had clear claims on Media Center PCs. They tested five of them in a 25 pages long special. In the row: The Shuttle XPC System G5 8300M, that became "Digital World price tipp" thanks to "good performance" and "living room qualities".

The staff of the german multimedia magazine "Digital World" had an eye on easy handling. This should be the most important criteria besides configuration. The Shutlle XPC System G5 8300M managed that demands perfect: "Small Media-Center PC with living room qualities." They especially mentioned the front display with its messages on the media screen."

A noble design is important to integrate the pc into the living room sorrounding.The "beautiful Media-Center PC" of Shuttle has got mirrowed front panels, that hide the drives and ports. This strenghts are also at performance: "The strenghts of the Shuttle are the big hard disk with 200GB and the fast graphics card by ATI." They also mentioned the low noise in fact of big performance: although it has great performance "it works also low-noise".

Conclusion:

"The Shuttle is at the top of the performance group. It also works low noise."

Handling media functions:good
Configuration media functions: good
Graphics/Sound quality: good
Performance: good
Price/Performance ratio: good

Valuation:

7.1 of 10 points