Anand goes West - November 2002 Industry Update

XPC Accessories

There's a big push from Shuttle to provide as many accessories for their XPC line as possible; we got a glimpse of just some of the offerings:

Finally available are the glowing front panels for the Shuttle XPC; through a simple power connection, these front panels will produce a very bright glow. Some may find it distracting, especially if you have your XPC sitting on your desk but at $45 for the panel there may be some customers for it.

The carrying case is another popular item:

Not bad for carrying your XPC to/from the office or LAN parties.

Coming down the pipe is a 802.11b upgrade, here you can see the antenna being mounted on the back; Bluetooth support will be offered as well.

And finally we have the card reader which reminds me a lot of the reader in the new HP Media Center PC…