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GunSilence
12/03/08

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These things are absolute gimmicks and not worth 300 bucks, ive seen dual core computers with 2gb ram and like 500 gb hard drive for this much, just not worth it.
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Kaiser-Machead
12/03/08

@GunSilence: This isn't purely about specs. If you can find a similarly-equipped system with a near identical form factor, I'd sure like to see it.
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ripfire
12/03/08

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Let me guess, they upgraded to Fly Creek mobo?
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ripfire
12/03/08

@ripfire: Read the article: nope.
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IN THE FACE!
12/03/08

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When are they going to adopt the new dual core Atom, is what I am waiting for.

Same goes for net-books.
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iatacs19
12/03/08

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The upgrades make it perfect for HTPC duty as long as it can play 1080p H.264 encoded files.
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ZLevee
12/03/08

I'm skeptical. My secondary (old) PC, an Athlon 2600+ with 1GB single channel RAM and a 4x AGP slot with an ATI 2600 XT 512MB graphics card (gimped by the speed of the aGP slot) stutters on HD video.

On a related note, I'm still wondering if this Windows 7 article [gizmodo.com] saying a PC with an 800MHz processor can run windows 7 and process video withotu a discreet card means there's a chance this hardware in my old PC could possibly not be the HD bottleneck I thought it was.
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Kaiser-Machead
12/03/08

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Knowing Asus, it's gotta cost more than $300 with the new innards. Maybe I'm alone on this, but I hate that bubble pattern on the sides.
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weatherman
12/03/08

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A CD drive of any sort would go a long way to making me care about this product.
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Kaiser-Machead
12/03/08

@weatherman: From the looks of things, this machine is more powerful than the AppleTV, which has a 1GHz underclocked Pentium M, and a weaker set of graphics. All it's missing is the component output, but HDMI is good enough for me.
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weatherman
12/03/08

@Kaiser-Machead: that's true and it would probably make a pretty nice MythTV box, but I guess I'm looking at it as a replacement for my aging desktop, and I need to have a CD drive at the very least to load software. And even as something that sits next to the TV, wouldn't it be nice to have a DVD drive in it? I mean we all probably have 8 different devices that play DVDs, but I'm running out of power outlets behind my TV!
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IN THE FACE!
12/03/08

@weatherman: They make bus powered external CD/DVD-drives...
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weatherman
12/03/08

@bpapa9013: that would kinda defeat the purpose of this small-footprint computer, no? All I am asking for is a slot loading DVD that should cost more than $25. But I guess I'm just not looking at this device in the right way. If it's a livingroom PC, maybe that's not important.
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