shuttle xpc: worth it or not?

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I like the fact that the XPCs are TINY compared a tower machine. I'm tempted to go buy one, but wanted to get some opinions/user feedback before i do. what do you all think of the xpcs?

[Showtime]

For me these things are fine. I'd rather have a small, nice looking, decent performing box than another antec monster.

Most of my systems have 1 - 3 optical drives and 1 or 2 hard drives. I wish they would make these with 2 big optical bays and have like an adapter if you wanted to use a floppy.

Unless I get another great deal on a Dell, my next built system will probably be one of these little boxes. Agp, one hd and 1 or 2 opticals (got|dremel?) is all I need. Built in Lan and Sound is ok. They are both getting better each year and the newer onboard sound uses less of the cpu's resources. People even do a little ocing with some of the boxes.

-jel:halo: