On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Yan Seiner <<a href="mailto:yan@seiner.com">yan@seiner.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Sarah Hayes wrote:<br>
> Jarett Creason wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Everex is going to sell these on NewEgg, supposedly, March 1st... So,<br>
>> anyone have any input on whether this would play 1080i and 720p HD<br>
>> content? It comes loaded with their gOS, but I assume, since it's all<br>
>> standard hardware, that one could easily load another distro of their<br>
>> choice on it??<br>
>><br>
> Looks interesting, although from the form factor I doubt you could add a<br>
> PCI sound card to it for 5.1+ audio. Assuming it'll boot from the<br>
> optical drive (or flipped to do so in it's BIOS) you should be able to<br>
> install whatever you wanted on it.<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>But for $499 it seems really pricy for what it is. I have a flyer from<br>
Dell for something that specs out similar, and comes with a 20" LCD for<br>
$450.<br>
<br>
Newegg better offer a honking discount if this is to fly.<br>
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--Yan<br>
</font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"></div></div></blockquote><div><br>I agree, you can get cheaper faster hardware, but not this small... It looks like it's the size of a Mac Mini, although I'm having a hard time finding actual dimensions listed. Also, I would only mean to use it as a frontend, and have all tuners in another box (or the closet where my HDHR sits).<br>
<br>Jarett<br></div></div><br>