The expansion from barebones to full systems has followed a natural They still offer barboines systems everywhere in the US and Canada, their retail partners appear to sell barebones almost exclusively, except for the X100.
Shuttle now offers complete systems in virtually all their markets. Not long thereafter, their US web site begain offering direct-to-consumer XPC systems. They began offering complete SFF systems in Taiwan nearly two years ago thorugh selected retail partners. One strategy for Shuttle to regain lost ground is to sell complete SFF systems. The decline has hurt Shuttle, as they owned some 60% of the market. This is probably the biggest factor in the wane of SFF sales over the past two years. However,īy Shuttle’s own estimates, the barebones PC market is limited to just 1~2% of the total desktop PC market. More recently, they created and popularized the toaster-size smallįorm factor case, particularly as a barebones PC. Primarily a motherboard maker - they boast of being the world’s fifth largest Shuttle has been through quite a few incarnations.
