Shuttle intros XPC G5 3201M, complete with Blu-ray drive

Although Shuttle just recently unveiled an XPC machine that stepped up in the HD realm, the G5 3201M leaves no doubt about its intentions. Packing that typical SFF Shuttle chassis and a VFD display, this bad boy includes Intel's E6300 Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB of DDR2 RAM, a 250GB SATA hard drive, NVIDIA's 256MB GeForce 8600GTS graphics unit, a DVB-T TV tuner, 7.1-channel audio output, a wireless remote, and the obligatory Blu-ray drive to top things off. Notably, users can choose between the HDCP-compliant DVI or HDMI ports for video output, and a number of upgrades are available if you've got the necessary coinage. Per usual, this XPC won't run ya cheap, as the base configuration rings up at €1,419 ($1,953) -- and that's sans a monitor, keyboard, and mouse.

[Via GadgetTastic]

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 10th 2007 2:33PM]

The blu-ray support just keeps growing.

Notice it didn't HD_DVD drive.

The PC market is why HD-DVD is going to lose. Blu-ray has had OEM drive from the start.

Where are the OEM HD-DVD drive?

Did Toshiba forget about the HTPC market which is growing?

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 10th 2007 2:39PM]

The blu-ray support just keeps coming.

Where are the HD-DVD drive? I guess Tohiba can't focus on both markets. Not having a OEM HD-DVD burner is going to lose them the war.

[Xyzzy Posted Aug 10th 2007 3:16PM]

"Where are the HD-DVD drive? I guess Tohiba can't focus on both markets. Not having a OEM HD-DVD burner is going to lose them the war."
First of all, this computer doesn't have a BD burner, only a BD drive.

Second of all, here's some recent posts showing you where the HD DVD drives are in these sorts of media centers.

http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/06/08/vidabox-ships-blu--ray-hd-dvd-equipped-cablecard-htpcs/
http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/06/22/shuttles-xpc-sg33g5-hearts-hd-touts-hdmi-port/
http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/07/27/inteset-stuffs-hd-dvd-blu-ray-combo-drive-in-media-pcs/

Anything else I can do for you?

[DaveBG Posted Aug 10th 2007 2:59PM]

This looks sexy :)

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 10th 2007 5:50PM]

Yes. I know about those. Show me a single OEM HD-DVD drive not dual. Is that the best Toshiba can do is ride the coat tails of blu-ray. They can't make a single OEM HD-DVD drive without blu-ray support?

Your only going to see dual blu-ray/HD-DVD drives. You wont see any single OEM HD-DVD drive becuase nobody will buy them but, there is plenty of single OEM blu-ray drives without HD-DVD.

[Jyncus Posted Aug 10th 2007 6:07PM]

Ugh.. This blu-ray/hd-dvd bickering comes up every single time either or the two words appears in a new post. This is about a new Shuttle SFF - not another pointless debate over why they decided to stick a blu-ray drive in it instead of something else.
This format war is getting old..very old.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 11th 2007 2:04AM]

I've owned a few Shuttles and like them (I'm typing this comment on one now). But I will absolutely not buy one with a Blu-Ray drive - I'll wait for the HD DVD version, thanks.

[simbadogg Posted Aug 11th 2007 6:53PM]

haha, good luck

[JDM Posted Aug 11th 2007 4:25AM]

I'm not sure I see the value. For that price, it doesn't seem like demanding a writer is unrealistic.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 12th 2007 1:48PM]

Seems a bit over priced. The last PC I built for the family room (earlier this year) had an Abit board with HDMI output on the motherboard.