MSI Titan 700 Full Micro PC 2.0Ghz / 1GB DDR2 / 120GB / DVD-SM / Desktop PC

I bought one of these as I was going to build a PC for my parents (just for surfing really) and I noticed this had all the bits in it pre loaded. When it arrived I was shocked by the size, its smaller than it looks in the pictures, not a lot bigger than a 5.4" CD Drive.

All the components inside appear to be those used for laptops, and the DVD-Drive is a DVD Writer! Its hidden behind a flap (mirrored front)

I put windows XP on it, works fine and boots up surprisingly quickly! Does everything my parents need, and small enough to be hidden away. Also runs very quiet with little heat.

I needed a small, cheap to buy and cheap to run (low energy) machine to run the Squeezecenter server for my Logitech Duo, and this is ideal.

Ordered from Play on Saturday and it was delivered on Monday. As previous review states the unit is small and whilst not silent is certainly not loud.

Installed Ubuntu 8.04 and download the Squeezecenter software as per their instructions and it works perfectly.

Normally uses between 20-40% CPU when playing or searching for music and about 350MB of the available 1GB memory. The response on the Duo receiver is great, so the low power of the VIA CPU is not a problem for this type of use.

The 120GB disk is easily large enough to store all my music locally, but I actually have the server connect to my DLINK DNS-323 SAN for this, which provides RAID0 resilient storage for these.

As the unit uses less electricity than a normal light bulb there is no problem leaving it running all the time.

All in all a great little unit and great service from Play as normal.

Its very small, cheap, quiet and looks quite good but it crashes a fair bit which i think could be because the CPU runs to hot as I relised that the CPU runs at about 71c idle (average is around 40c) may be able to get a new cooler but being small there may not be the space. The other thing is that the RAM is only 266MHz so you may want to buy 1gb of 533MHz for it (£11.50 from play). Other than those two niggles its good, work fine with XP and Ubuntu 8.04 (if you've never had Ubuntu then it doesn't work with a canon IP1800 printer and doesn't work with you tube so if you have a canon printer or you use you tube you may want XP)

Hi I have not used this machine but we have Ubuntu 8.10 and it works with utube and my canon pixima ip4500 printer, you may need to down load a plug for you tube play back.