Shuttle’s SN41G2 & SK41G: Two Athlon Small Form Factor PCs

At the rear of the SK41G we have two 9-pin serial ports, one VGA port (driven by the on-board ProSavage8 video), one S-Video port for TV out, two powered Firewire ports, two USB 2.0 ports, one 10/100 Ethernet port, PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports, and a standard set of three 1/8” jacks for audio. The three 1/8” jacks can be remapped in software to provide 6-channel analog out, with the mic and headphone jacks duplicated on the front of the chassis as we mentioned earlier. It’s worth noting that the inclusion of the S-Video port forced Shuttle to get rid of the duplicate optical out on the rear of the SK41G, which depending on whether or not you were planning on using it may be an inconvenience.

One fairly major thing left out from the SK41G shipping configuration (and all other Shuttle XPCs for that matter) is that the system comes with no parallel port by default. Shuttle’s reasoning is that USB should be the printer interface of choice for today’s PCs, but along those same lines you can argue that serial and PS/2 ports are unnecessary as well.

There is a cutout for a parallel port at the top of the chassis but the connector on the motherboard for the parallel port is not the standard AT connector, but rather lower profile pins. This means you can’t use one of your older AT parallel port brackets, you’ll have to order the $8 cable from Shuttle instead.