Silicon Mountain debuts Atom-based Allio Lite LCD TV-PC
by Donald Melanson 
posted Feb 2nd 2009 at 5:17PM
It's just been a few months since Silicon Mountain rolled out its first Allio LCD TV-PCs, but it looks like the company has already found some room for expansion courtesy of everyone's favorite cost-reducing processor. While the TV portion of the 1080p 42-inch model and 720p 32-inch model each remain identical to their predecessors, the innards have taken on more of a netbook/nettop flavor, with each packing a dual-core Atom 330 processor, along with a 250GB hard drive, 2GB of RAM, and a DVD drive (no Blu-ray option, it seems), plus Windows Vista Home Premium for an OS. That, as you might expect, lowers the cost of entry a tad, with the 42-inch model now demanding $1,599 (the same as the full-featured 32-inch model), while the Atom-based 32-incher will run you $1,299.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Aaron @ Feb 2nd 2009 6:25PM
Off-brand 32-inch LCD: $500
Eee box PC with VESA mount: $300
Total: $800
So why in the world would you pay $1300 to combine the two??