After I saw it disected, I could tell they were selling it for a loss. It's basically a computer, a very dedicated computer. It has a PC HD-DVD drive (that alone caused me to think that $499 is way low), then add P4 CPU, DDR memory, etc. etc. If this were an XBOX, it would get hacked. How cool would it be to stream HD over the USB port to another PC, or install an internal hard drive?
I hear it behaves itself quite nicely after the firmware update. Still loads media slow (because it is a PC after all), but after that seems to work well.
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Jim @ Jun 23rd 2006 1:28PM
After I saw it disected, I could tell they were selling it for a loss. It's basically a computer, a very dedicated computer. It has a PC HD-DVD drive (that alone caused me to think that $499 is way low), then add P4 CPU, DDR memory, etc. etc. If this were an XBOX, it would get hacked. How cool would it be to stream HD over the USB port to another PC, or install an internal hard drive?
I hear it behaves itself quite nicely after the firmware update. Still loads media slow (because it is a PC after all), but after that seems to work well.