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Despite the diminutive sizes of its machines, Shuttle appears to be getting itself some serious delusions of grandeur. You can’t possibly make a small form factor gaming machine. Can you? Well, with the machines that Shuttle has been putting out recently these delusions have become reality.

Small form factors cases are cool, right? They’re compact, light and look awesome. Unfortunately building a gaming rig out of one is usually impossible, with space enough for nought but a puny pixel pusher. Not with Shuttle’s latest barebones system though; the XPC SX38P2 is just about as high end as you could wish for.

When you’re thinking about small-form factor PCs I’m willing to bet the notion of glamour barely enters your head. I’m sure like most of us you’ll associate the word with grubby shots of large-breasted, plastic ladies posing for calendars destined for the walls of garages across the land.

Shuttle pioneered the small-form factor PC, and we're sure there are plenty of those shoe-box sized systems up and down the country. So it's refreshing to see the company is trying something new with this slimline, stylish PC

That hulking PC you've got hooked up to your TV really isn't doing your stylish living room justice is it? What you need is a quiet, good-looking machine to cater for all your media centre needs. Enter Shuttle's latest mini media centre PC, the X200M

Like a homosexual clergyman, the X100 is confused. Unfortunately, itseems not to know what it was created for. At first glance it looks like a neat media centre; like something you wouldn't mind sitting next to