If I recall, anand was one of the 1st places to do a review of the 1st pIII shuttle X-PC's. I think they really helped shuttle get a start by thier high recomendations.
Incidentally I did a project in a technical writing class about a year ago that featured the shuttle X-PCs at about $400-$500 that could do everything the current HP, compaq, Dell, etc boxes that run at or just under $1000 could do.
The teacher thought I was nuts when I talked about a powerful computer that was small, silent and cute. She didnt think there could ever be a market for it.