Shuttle to chop prices for Black Friday

Derek Brush (lordbean) Shuttle Computer will offer up to 50% off select products on this year's Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping sprees.

November 23, 2009 10:58 AM ET in News, , , ,

Shuttle Computer plans to offer its customers up to 50% off select Small Form Factor (SFF) PCs for this year’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping sprees.

SFF PCs are convenient in that they offer desktop-class performance in a fraction of the footprint. While it isn’t possible to squeeze a double- or triple-GPU setup into current SFF designs, the appreciably tiny SFF boxes still turn in some pretty impressive specs.

While Shuttle has not released details on which outlets or models are participating in this deal, they have hinted that it will most likely be at a major online retailer.

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4 Comments

  1. 23 Nov '09, 4:27 pm Gargoyle

    Hmm. I've been thinking about building a mini-itx rig from scratch, but that might be a deep enough discount to go with a Shuttle barebone setup.

  2. 23 Nov '09, 4:28 pm lordbean

    I'm even thinking about it myself. Even though I live in Canada, it's probably still better to grab a 50%-off product from a US web site and pay the shipping than to pay full price from a Canadian site.

    An SFF PC would be a good use of the hardware in my secondary box.

  3. 23 Nov '09, 4:30 pm Cliff_Forster

    I have some experience with shuttle boxes. What I do recommend for anyone considering a performance graphics card is to stick with stock coolers that encase the heatsink for rejecting the warm air directly from the enclosure.

  4. 23 Nov '09, 4:34 pm lordbean
    Quoting Cliff_Forster

    I have some experience with shuttle boxes. What I do recommend for anyone considering a performance graphics card is to stick with stock coolers that encase the heatsink for rejecting the warm air directly from the enclosure.

    An excellent suggestion. I had an SFF PC in the past, and one of the things that really caught my attention was that the graphics card had practically zero breathing space. An enclosed cooler designed to exhaust out the back bracket is almost a must, unless you plan on purchasing a card that runs quite cool.

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