Barebone computer

As Barebone (English bare bone " bare bones " also called X - PC ) refers to an incompletely assembled computer in which the basic components with more constant prices of the day, the most just of housing, power supply, CPU cooler and motherboard (mainboard, motherboard ), formerly also CDROM and floppy drive exists and the buyer or distributor with the required components (CPU, RAM, video card, drives, etc., but also operating system and software) can be fitted. The buyer can select his desired configuration with reduced effort in logistics and manufacturing so easily.

Barebone systems are available for all PC versions, the normal office PC to server variants in 19 -inch format. The best known barebone systems come from the Taiwanese company shuttle. These devices are characterized by a very small size. Shuttle sells these devices both as a barebone systems as well as complete PCs. This leads to confusion when barebone is commonly used as a synonym for very small PC systems.

In addition to the leader shuttle also devices from AOpen, Asus, Biostar, Elitegroup, Iwill, MSI, Sizo, Soltek, Supermicro and other vendors are available.

Barebones are also very good for the build-to -order production, since the selection of options for the customer and the foreseeable production times from the manufacturer are shorter here. On the Internet you can find various barebones configurators that can be easily put together a complete PC Barebone on base.

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• Franz -Josef Lintermann, Udo Schaefer, Walter Schulte- Göcking, Klaas GETTNER Simple IT systems. Lehr-/Fachbuch. 5, first corrected reprint edition. Educational publishing ONE, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8237-1140-7 (page 10).