Comments on: Give WHS a Home – The Shuttle X27

By: Keith

Keith — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:34:11 +0000

@Unreasonable cost: Are you smoking something? Seriously.. Philip Churchill isn’t doing anything more than displaying an ad for a product. Shuttle is the ones making the misleading claims. The ad has nothing to do with this site nor MS WHS. I wish there was an ignore button for comments – I could definitely still sleep at night knowing I would never see another post by you again.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:27:13 +0000

What figures do you have to back your claim that sales are low? Sources, please.

By: Unreasonable Cost

Unreasonable Cost — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:11:43 +0000

Philip Churchill needs to change the title here, because
“the small PC will start from $189″ isn’t even correct. No chip, memory or hard drive, and without WHS, makes this a PC?

How many PC’s are sold without chip, memory, hard drive and operating system claiming to be a PC?

Very misleading, and to get the thing to work, it’s NOT $189 here, at all. Anyone would need to purchase the additional missing hardware plus install an operating system.

$500 plus dollars isn’t reasonable here at all! If this is how MSWHS wants to advertise WHS, is it any wonder why sales are so low…

By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:31:52 +0000

There’s an update on this on engadget.

“Update: We just talked to Shuttle and they told us that $189 is just for a barebones rig — no chip, memory or hard drive. Fully spec’d with an Atom, you’re looking at $500+ — which is ridiculous, since the MSI Wind barebones nettop runs $139 with an Atom chip. Oh well.”

By: Olav

Olav — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:14:29 +0000

CWH, maybe you can install an adapter to convert the SATA ports to eSATA. In that case, it would be great; otherwise, not.

By: CWH

CWH — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:39:01 +0000

Not too sure – will only take one 2.5 hard drive, and although has two SATA ports, no eSATA and no PCI(e).