PC Pro: "Very small, very quiet, and very fast"
 More performance as it is found in the Shuttle XPC P 2500G is barely possible. This is something the editors of the English computer magazine PC Pro can approve: "A tiny piece of technological magic – the 2500G beats most tower PCs for sheer power." Shuttle is the known market leader when it comes to SFF PCs, but Shuttle has now made the leap from the hobbyist market to supplying pre-built systems, and the 2500G Pro is brimming with high-end components."
"The issue with small-form-factor machines, and specifically those with top-end components, is that effectively dissipating heat is the devil's own work," explain the editors. Compared to other units the Shuttle XPC P 2500G makes the difference: "Pleasingly, we were still able to cencentrate with the 2500G Pro working hard right next to the monitor on the desk without the cooling system proving a distraction." Although the Shuttle machine incorporates state of the art components: AMD Athlon 64 FX60 CPU, two Gigabytes of TakeMS RAM, ATI's Radeon X1900 XTX graphics card from Connect 3D, a 250 Gigabyte Samsung hard disk and the Shuttle CR40 dual layer DVD writer. Especially the hard disk included impressed the IT experts of PC Pro: "The pre-installed hard disk is this month's Labs Winner, a 250GB Samsung disk that's both quick and quiet."
Overall the editors loved this SFF PC and cited: "The 2500G Pro is well engineered, and it's the most powerful small-form-factor PC we've ever reviewed. Looked at purely in terms of performance, build quality and features."
Conclusion:
"Very small, very quiet, and very fast with AMD's top-of-the-line CPU, the 2500G Pro will handle anything you ask of it."
Pros:
| Performance: |
6 of 6 stars |
| Features & Design: |
6 of 6 stars |
| Overall: |
5 of 6 stars |
Source: PC Pro, Issue July 2006 |