Remember your first PC? Chances are, it came in some monstrous tower or desktop form factor. It was probably loud, slow, and took up far too much space. Fortunately, those days are long behind us.

Most Shuttle XPCs can rival any full-size board's feature set. Let's see how it's done. Popping off the aluminium cover is as easy as removing three holding thumbscrews. A large drive tray obscures ...