SilverStone Grandia GD05 HTPC Case

Silverstone has been making HTPC cases for the longest time, and they’re always a pretty solid option. They make some that are roomy enough to handle any specs you’d want to throw at it. And at $140 it’s not an unreasonable asking price either, although no volume knobs or VFD displays…if that sorta stuff interests you. Today we look at […]

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eMachines debuts snazzy Mini-e ER1402 SFF PC

Looks like eMachines is jumping on the SFF Nettop bandwagon. Priced at $299, doesn’t seem like an awful idea. And with decent enough specs, HDMI and an Nvidia graphics…maybe it can do the HTPC duties. Inside the small HTPC is an AMD Athlon II NEO CPU, GeForce 9200 graphics, and 2GB of RAM. In addition to HTPC duties, eMachines says […]

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AC Ryan PlayOn!HD Review

Shocking….another extender device 🙂 But hey, it’s Friday.   HTPCs and media centres are growing in popularity as our houses become far more linked in terms of media. However, these systems can still be too expensive for some, or too big, too complicated; what’s a guy to do? One option it seems is to get yourself a network media player. […]

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