<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Brian Wood <<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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</div>Yup, clothes do make the man, or in this case (no pun intended) the computer.<br>
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A cool-looking case is worth nothing to me, but it seems to be worth a lot to<br>
many folks. I'm more interested in good thermal design, and a lot of fancy<br>
cases seem to have passed that up in favor of "cool" designs.<br>
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But Myth users are very mild in this regard, look at some of the "gaming"<br>
cases. I actually saw an ad stating you would "devour your enemies" because<br>
of the special design features of their case, anyone who would believe that<br>
is, well, a gamer :-)<br>
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beww<br>
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<br>When I made the original post I wasn't saying, "Hey guys, here's the end-all be-all HTPC setup that will destroy all comers". All I meant was, here's (IMHO) a great price for something that could be used as a combo FE and BE in your living room without sounding like a jet engine or looking _too much_ like a computer.<br>
<br>My original post was brief - I was at work and had limited time - but I didn't mean for this to come off sounding like it was the Second Coming or something. You may be able to build something cheaper. This is almost always the case with computers these days. But if you want to build something comparable in size, power and capability, you're going to spend hours researching and testing your options. Or you could just buy one of these and (theoretically) be done with it. There's nothing wrong with the former or the latter, I've built my own PC since I got into this business. But something it's easier to just Set it and Forget it.<br>
<br>And for everyone saying to just buy a Mini - For $450 you might be able to get a refurbed Core2Duo, but you're only going to get a gig of ram, an 80GB drive, no HDMI and zero expandability. It's not quite the same thing.<br>
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