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Shuttle's midrange XPC G5 3600mc is slick looking and compact, but it falls short of other small-form-factor systems.
Today in Tech History: June 9, 2008
Crossing the Pacific in the Southern Cross, and what happened to the Space Shuttle Challenger.
Stefan Baiatu: "Columbia Requiem"
It was live on TV. Seven good people died in a blink. My good friend Stefan Baiatu wrote the song in five minutes (music and lyrics). It was about the tragedy of the space shuttle Challenger. But what do you know - it happened again - seven angels... Columbia. History repeats itself - is this unavoidable?
Shuttle's XPC H7 5800 is unique mostly for the fact that it's the smallest system we know of to offer multigraphics card support and Intel Core i7 CPUs. If its options sound gamer-friendly, its price and configuration quirks are decided turn-offs. Unless you demand this particular balance of size and power, we'd look elsewhere.
Aside from a couple performance quibbles, the Canon PowerShot A1100 IS provides a good point-and-shoot experience with great pictures as a result.
If the Shuttle XPC X100 had come out when it was announced six months ago, we'd like it a lot better. Competing systems such as the WinBook Jiv Mini pack more features into a smaller package, but the trade-off is less RAM and hard-drive space.
The Nokia 6750 Mural is a sleek, stylish phone with a midrange feature set.
Despite a few design issues, the Pantech Reveal is a good midrange messaging phone with the added bonus of a full HTML Web browser.
The Motorola Krzr K1 for T-Mobile offers good call quality, stylish design, and a decent array of features.
The Space Shuttle Discovery showed off its moves for the International Space Station, performing a "backflip" in space so engineers could get a better look at its heat shield. Check out the NASA video here.
