ION-Powered Shuttle XS35 Barebone Priced

Often, when a company or another comes up with a new idea for a device, said idea is showcased at the next electronics event or a specially set-up event. Other times, said hardware or PC supplier would simply issue a press release describing the electronic. Afterwards, efforts are usually put into bringing said device to market in a timely fashion. Unfortunately, some items take longer than others to actually become available, sometimes getting delayed because of various reasons. Shuttle's XS35 is one such product.

The XS35 is a barebone PC, a nettop, if you will, of whose existence the industry has known for months. In fact, it was revealed as early as February, which makes it somewhat unexpected that sales haven't already started. Blogee does not exactly go into detail when it comes to the reasons for this delay, but it at least offers what it suggests to be the price point of the device.

The Shuttle XS35 will supposedly debut during the third quarter of the ongoing year, most likely during the later part and will be accompanied by a price tag of 320 Euro. For this amount of money, end-users will get an Intel Atom D510 dual-core central processing unit, with a clock speed of 1.66Ghz, coupled with an NVIDIA GT218 GPU for video. Additionally, the barebone boasts a D-Sub and HDMI output, as well as a multi-format card reader, space for one 2.5-inch hard disk or SSD, an optical drive, five USB ports and LAN.

Compared to the specification sheet first published, the current XS35 doesn't seem to have changed. In fact, it appears that only the chassis has suffered some design modifications, meant to reduce the heat of the fanless PC. This design update is supposedly the cause of the delay and is unlikely to be accompanied by any change to the overall build, though anything is possible.