Interesting idea. The looks will divide opinion I'm sure.. My wife told me to forget having one of them in the living room when she glanced over. I don't actually like the way it looks.

I can see it doing well with Corsair marketing behind it though and it's certainly far from a bad living room PC solution. I shall stick to the RVZ02 when it's released I think.

“small form factor”

Should have been a vertical box.

Highly ventilated, stylish, compact console design enhances living spaces

I wonder if I put this line through Google Translate, it would come back with:

We've made it so ugly it's got to be beautiful

staffsMike
Interesting idea. The looks will divide opinion I'm sure.. My wife told me to forget having one of them in the living room when she glanced over. I don't actually like the way it looks.

I can see it doing well with Corsair marketing behind it though and it's certainly far from a bad living room PC solution. I shall stick to the RVZ02 when it's released I think.

That should be a good'n.
I like my rvz01 and from what I've seen the improvements they're making for the second revision should improve building with it.

I think they've missed a trick not putting the GPU on a riser, that's what enables the Silverstone cases, and alienware x51 to be slim. Also means you now need GPU watercooling to make space when it's not really necessary.

Still, I think more stuff like this on the market is a good thing.

Wonder if they're just rebranding the Silverstone PSU

No mention of what storage options are available - I'm guessing a single 3.5“ or maybe a a 2.5 and 3.5” each.

That said, I'm looking for something more in the storage-server line, although the looks of this could grow on me.

ixo
Should have been a vertical box.

And how many vertically-arranged home theatre systems have you seen? TV unit behind me has Tivo, Sony home theatre system (Bluray), XBox and Wii and all of these are horizontal - although, yes, the two consoles could be vertical-ised.

Exciting, I do like the looks and it's Skylake mini-itx which a lot of people will be crying out for. The price point is good too. I hope they get some major interest and sell a load as you can't beat a PC for versatility yet people still spend top dollar on consoles. They're similar tech at this point, why not get the more versatile option and open up a smooth learning curve at the same time?

(I've never owned a console)

Methinks lots of people on this forum are too young to remember Shuttles ;)

directhex
Methinks lots of people on this forum are too young to remember Shuttles ;)

I had a homebuilt gaming shuttle about 9(?) years ago. Revisiting that whole area with a Fractal Node 304/GTX 980 machine based that's waiting to be built atm :)

By the time you put all the required components into this and end up with a decent spec machine, it will have cost you quite a large sum of money, so obviously it is not a cheap option, nor a direct like-for-like alternative for a console, but it isn't a bad choice for a high spec living room gaming/media pc. As long as you like the aesthetics!