Acer rolls out the Aspire X1200 home theater-friendly mini PC for $499

by Joshua Fruhlinger, posted Jul 8th 2008 at 11:49AM

Always wanted to install a little computer into your home theater but none of the available options are cutting it, what with all the giant media files and HD displays you're rolling? Enter Acer's Aspire X1200, which for $450 includes on-board NVIDIA GeForce 8200 graphics, an AMD Athlon X2 2850e processor, and HDMI port. Acer promises full 7.1-channel audio support as well as the guts to work with H.264, VC1, and MPEG2 and the spunk to output 1080P. The whole shebang comes in a rack-friendly 10.6 x 4.0 x 14.4-inch enclosure. Of course, prices scale up to $699 based on your needs -- the latter coming with a 22-inch display -- but the base price will get you a 320GB SATA II drive and the start of what could be a sweet little home theater PC.

Filed under: Media PCs

Tags: acer, acer aspire x1200, AcerAspireX1200, hdmi, home theater, HomeTheater, x1200

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CP @ Jul 8th 2008 1:37PM

$459 at Best Buy

Link: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8891871&productCategoryId=abcat0501001&type=product&tab=2&id=1212192194910#productdetail

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Peter @ Jul 8th 2008 2:31PM

Looks nice, but how many 3.5" drives can it hold? Gotta have plenty of HD space for a HTPC.

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burndive @ Jul 8th 2008 2:59PM

Um...

No Blu-ray drive?

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RKV @ Jul 8th 2008 3:40PM

Hmm, some of the most common things we would need to make it an all-in-one solution (which the PS3 almost achieves [except PVR functions]) are missing and adding them (if at all possible) could make the final price much higher (atleast when compared to the PS3)...
1) Blu-ray disc drive [$150 - $200 min.]
2) HDTV Tuner Card (full-featured) [$80 - $100 min.]
3) Wireless adapter (might not be a big deal)
4) (anything else?)

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ds @ Jul 9th 2008 1:54PM

small point but Blu-Ray drives can be had for ~$120 from a few places

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Mehdi @ Jul 8th 2008 10:01PM

Give me an Intel CPU, and a Blu-ray drive in it, and I might think about purchasing it.

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Jack Chance @ Jul 9th 2008 8:45PM

Absence of blue-ray drive is a bit suspicious.

how would this do on games?

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