Rejuvenating a $599 Shuttle Nettop from 2011! Sassy's Green PC
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Date: 2022-04-14
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Kernelpickle
It-s amazing what they can cram into the form factor of a 100x100 VESA mount mini PC these days. I just deployed a ton of HP ProDesk 600 G6 Mini Desktops in the last couple of weeks ago in an automotive assembly plant, and I was impressed by their specs. These little guys had 10th Gen Intel Core i5-s with 8GB of RAM, a 256GB NVMe SSD, wired and wireless LAN, dual DisplayPort outputs, a couple of USB-C and a decent number of USB A ports. They looked like they had just a laptop style blower fan-but overall impressive for a 35w PC. Given the specs of our older, much chonkier ProDesk towers-those will be a much welcome upgrade, say nothing for the fact that they will take up almost zero space and won-t die a miserable heat death inside a cabinet on the floor of a manufacturing facility.
The apparently make fancier EliteDesk versions, and if it weren-t for the $800-1K price tag, I-d totally consider getting one. Be on the lookout for these things in 3 years when they come off corporate leases because they-re gonna be a sick deal in the $200 range. These had a build date of 2019 on them, so presumably someone got those immediately after they were released, so there might be some hitting the secondhand market in as little as a year.
Even though these things should be able to run Windows 11, I would absolutely be running Linux on them and retro gaming to my hearts content via emulation.
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It-s amazing what they can cram into the form factor of a 100x100 VESA mount mini PC these days. I just deployed a ton of HP ProDesk 600 G6 Mini Desktops in the last couple of weeks ago in an automotive assembly plant, and I was impressed by their specs. These little guys had 10th Gen Intel Core i5-s with 8GB of RAM, a 256GB NVMe SSD, wired and wireless LAN, dual DisplayPort outputs, a couple of USB-C and a decent number of USB A ports. They looked like they had just a laptop style blower fan-but overall impressive for a 35w PC. Given the specs of our older, much chonkier ProDesk towers-those will be a much welcome upgrade, say nothing for the fact that they will take up almost zero space and won-t die a miserable heat death inside a cabinet on the floor of a manufacturing facility.
The apparently make fancier EliteDesk versions, and if it weren-t for the $800-1K price tag, I-d totally consider getting one. Be on the lookout for these things in 3 years when they come off corporate leases because they-re gonna be a sick deal in the $200 range. These had a build date of 2019 on them, so presumably someone got those immediately after they were released, so there might be some hitting the secondhand market in as little as a year.
Even though these things should be able to run Windows 11, I would absolutely be running Linux on them and retro gaming to my hearts content via emulation.
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Big
You should have partitioned that SSD with a Win8/10/11 install media first, then rebooted to the XP install media. XP's installer can't properly do the 4k alignment that an SSD wants.
You don't see too many of those little Shuttle boxes around anymore. I took several off of the hands of a medical practice that never should have been using them (someone had the idea of running Nextech on them. Today, and for the last few years, one has lived headlessly in my home office with a Samsung SSD in it running Win10 Pro 32-bit and I access it via RDP or Anydesk or a network KVM. The CPU is actually a 64-bit processor, but there are no 64-bit drivers for the iGPU and you don't want to run Win10x64 with its max of 4GB RAM, anyway. It gets powered on in November each year to run Light-O-Rama and oeprate my Christmas light show, then it goes back into hibernation in January. It's a member of my domain and gets backed up to my Veeam Backup and Replication server while it is on. For this, it's great. I wouldn't try to do much else with it, though. Maybe it could run Linux and be a pi-hole or redundant DNS server, but why do that when I have Raspberry Pis to spare?
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You should have partitioned that SSD with a Win8/10/11 install media first, then rebooted to the XP install media. XP's installer can't properly do the 4k alignment that an SSD wants.
You don't see too many of those little Shuttle boxes around anymore. I took several off of the hands of a medical practice that never should have been using them (someone had the idea of running Nextech on them. Today, and for the last few years, one has lived headlessly in my home office with a Samsung SSD in it running Win10 Pro 32-bit and I access it via RDP or Anydesk or a network KVM. The CPU is actually a 64-bit processor, but there are no 64-bit drivers for the iGPU and you don't want to run Win10x64 with its max of 4GB RAM, anyway. It gets powered on in November each year to run Light-O-Rama and oeprate my Christmas light show, then it goes back into hibernation in January. It's a member of my domain and gets backed up to my Veeam Backup and Replication server while it is on. For this, it's great. I wouldn't try to do much else with it, though. Maybe it could run Linux and be a pi-hole or redundant DNS server, but why do that when I have Raspberry Pis to spare?
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Do
here in Brazil computers today come from china. many people use chinese tvbox that comes smuggled by paraguay that is Brazil's neighbor it is easier for china to dock ships there in praguay and i came by land to Brazil. it's a mafia. .but it has helped many people something that here costs about 170. 00 reais, something that equipment like that would supposedly cost you North Americans about 25. 00 dollars. a chinese tvbox does everything the phone does, only with a mouse and keyboard attached to it. tvbox was an excellent idea, even for formatting it's easy because windows is not Android and linux is gaining space. Androud is also a linux. have you seen chrome (OS) flex? Microsoft will lose space
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here in Brazil computers today come from china. many people use chinese tvbox that comes smuggled by paraguay that is Brazil's neighbor it is easier for china to dock ships there in praguay and i came by land to Brazil. it's a mafia. .but it has helped many people something that here costs about 170. 00 reais, something that equipment like that would supposedly cost you North Americans about 25. 00 dollars. a chinese tvbox does everything the phone does, only with a mouse and keyboard attached to it. tvbox was an excellent idea, even for formatting it's easy because windows is not Android and linux is gaining space. Androud is also a linux. have you seen chrome (OS) flex? Microsoft will lose space
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Inaflap
I watched this video, using a similar netbook, an Acer Aspire Revo 3700, with D525 Atom, ION2 graphics, 4GB RAM, and the original 500GB hard disk. I bought it new, back in 2011. I went for the cheaper Linpus Linux option (which was dreadful. I soon installed Mint Linux, and that has been excellent. I've upgraded the version a couple of times.
I don't care to run modern games, but I enjoy some 8-bit and 16-bit retro gaming with it. If I'm feeling nostalgic, I will code in GW-BASIC via DOSBox. This little computer is great for interweb stuff. sitting quietly, using hardly any electricity, and working reliably day after day.
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I watched this video, using a similar netbook, an Acer Aspire Revo 3700, with D525 Atom, ION2 graphics, 4GB RAM, and the original 500GB hard disk. I bought it new, back in 2011. I went for the cheaper Linpus Linux option (which was dreadful. I soon installed Mint Linux, and that has been excellent. I've upgraded the version a couple of times.
I don't care to run modern games, but I enjoy some 8-bit and 16-bit retro gaming with it. If I'm feeling nostalgic, I will code in GW-BASIC via DOSBox. This little computer is great for interweb stuff. sitting quietly, using hardly any electricity, and working reliably day after day.
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fanjoy
I ended up purchasing a Simular 1. 6GHz AMD E350 (Dual Core Phenom II, with an 1/8th of the L2 and Sans L3) Radeon HD6330, MiniPC w/8GB RAM made by Viewsonic, Im running POP! OS Linux from a 90GB Corsair SSD With DOSBox and VBox (Windows 95 OSR2) For Old PC games, Im also Dual-Booting off a Class3 64GB SDCard for Batocera 2D console and arcade emulation. Works well for the total of $65. 00 I paid for the whole thing including the RAM and SSD upgrade. (not counting the XBOX360 controller)
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I ended up purchasing a Simular 1. 6GHz AMD E350 (Dual Core Phenom II, with an 1/8th of the L2 and Sans L3) Radeon HD6330, MiniPC w/8GB RAM made by Viewsonic, Im running POP! OS Linux from a 90GB Corsair SSD With DOSBox and VBox (Windows 95 OSR2) For Old PC games, Im also Dual-Booting off a Class3 64GB SDCard for Batocera 2D console and arcade emulation. Works well for the total of $65. 00 I paid for the whole thing including the RAM and SSD upgrade. (not counting the XBOX360 controller)
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Ryan
I currently own 2 of these units, a V2 and V3, I'm wanting a v4. My units are being used as linux mint based file servers.
both are fed on 120GB gigabyte ssd boot drives and 4GB ram, one server being dual ssd(120GB/1TB) and hybrid(120GB SSD/4TB HDD.
the v3 has a ethernet bug within linux so have pulled the wifi card and begun the search for a mini pcie card solution to replace it so that media can be streamed from that particular server across the network.
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I currently own 2 of these units, a V2 and V3, I'm wanting a v4. My units are being used as linux mint based file servers.
both are fed on 120GB gigabyte ssd boot drives and 4GB ram, one server being dual ssd(120GB/1TB) and hybrid(120GB SSD/4TB HDD.
the v3 has a ethernet bug within linux so have pulled the wifi card and begun the search for a mini pcie card solution to replace it so that media can be streamed from that particular server across the network.
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Super123456789Kuba
Well, as much I find these machines interesting in their own way, I personally wouldn't buy such thing myself, For me is more fascinating to run Games from 90s to mid 2000s on something like Athlon XP or something, I dunno, Probably because I had High-End PCs in my childhood and never kinda digged retro computers that much in the past, So I kinda do it now. Maybe When I'm older I would consider to have something like this, I suppose, for XP.
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Well, as much I find these machines interesting in their own way, I personally wouldn't buy such thing myself, For me is more fascinating to run Games from 90s to mid 2000s on something like Athlon XP or something, I dunno, Probably because I had High-End PCs in my childhood and never kinda digged retro computers that much in the past, So I kinda do it now. Maybe When I'm older I would consider to have something like this, I suppose, for XP.
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Palodin
Yeah, cheapo XP gaming machine is probably what I'd use this for as well honestly. Looks like it works great for that slightly awkward era between late 90s and early 00s, where many games don't play nice with modern systems. I'm using a laptop from a little earlier for it, Vista based, though I think it has a tiny bit more grunt than the atom (What doesn't. I wouldn't mind a proper desktop system though, this'd be perfect!
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Yeah, cheapo XP gaming machine is probably what I'd use this for as well honestly. Looks like it works great for that slightly awkward era between late 90s and early 00s, where many games don't play nice with modern systems. I'm using a laptop from a little earlier for it, Vista based, though I think it has a tiny bit more grunt than the atom (What doesn't. I wouldn't mind a proper desktop system though, this'd be perfect!
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Stuff
I recently got my hands on an HP All-In-One from 2016 with a spec list that's only marginally better than this, and it was apparently shipping with Windows 10 installed. Yikes! I got Lubuntu installed to it and use it primarily as a remote access client to my main rig, and honestly it was a smoother experience running Windows 11 from my main rig over the internet that it was running Lubuntu native.
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I recently got my hands on an HP All-In-One from 2016 with a spec list that's only marginally better than this, and it was apparently shipping with Windows 10 installed. Yikes! I got Lubuntu installed to it and use it primarily as a remote access client to my main rig, and honestly it was a smoother experience running Windows 11 from my main rig over the internet that it was running Lubuntu native.
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