Tag: Hardware

Now here’s a pretty darned cool take at an HTPC enclosure. It’s not your traditional HTPC-style case mod, but it is effective in noise suppression and the user does use a Zotac board. I’m not a Bioshock player but this would be pretty awesome. I’ve wanted to make a mineral oil PC for a couple years now. Not necessarily because […]

I’ve been following the 3D Vision for a couple months because it is one of the first full featured SFF pre-bulit HTPC available that actually look like they belong in the A/V stack.   Sporting HDMI 1.4 (3D MVC support and bit streaming) via Nvidia’s newest lineup of GPUs it should be pretty future proof, although with Sandy Bridge coming in […]

When I was looking for the perfect ITX HTPC case a while back, I came really close to picking one of these up.  It has the right look and is just about perfect except for the slimline optical driver requirement which killed it for me.   Slim HTPC cases are great for 2 things: low profile desktop machines or, as […]

Here’s Zotac’s latest cool SFF system featuring NVidia’s ION chipset. Pretty slick enclosure which seems to be able to handle fairly high image resolution without issues. The baseline system (2GB of DDR2-800 memory and a 250GB 5400RPM hard drive) is plenty powerful for basic tasks along with 720p/1080p video playback, but the barebones option would allow you to install 4GB […]

There’s some really questionable component choice (and handling for that matter), in the Maximum PC HTPC build.  I hope they expensed the parts because the system was at least $400 more than it needed to cost, and they forgot to include PowerDVD 10 in the bill of goods.   In this video (originally presented as part of the inaugural Maximum […]

The "review" is of the BlueTooth version there is a 2.4Ghz version as well.  Lots of nice pictures of the Rii Mini in the article. I just wish that the "review" was a little more in depth since I am in the market for a new KB and mouse. The Rii Mini Bluetooth Keyboard with touch pad from Brando is […]

Slow news day (actually slow news week), but here’s something cool to start your weekend, as the FCC got their hands on the Boxee unit and was nice enough to post a ton of pictures of it.   The photo above shows how D-Link actually fit the core components of the Boxee Box into the sloped cube.  Interestingly, the main […]

I’m still waiting on some official information from our contacts at SiliconDust, but this sure is an intriguing press announcement that came out of nowhere. Very curious to see how it pans out. If anyone has specific questions, leave a comment and we’ll see if we can get them answered.   The Hauppauge USB and Silicondust Ethernet attached products introduce […]

NMedia won’t exactly wow your visitors, but they do provide quality HTPC cases at a ridiculously affordable price. The matte black finish combined with a flashy black plastic front bezel really sets off this case and makes it look like a typical receiver or Blu-ray player  you might see on the shelf of any person’s home theater system. The sliding […]

Slow news day, but this cracked me up. I grew up with a Commodore64, so how cool would it be to use one and put it next to your TV? Then throw a C64 emulator on there, play a little Summer Olympics…and let the good times roll.   Inside that iconic case it has an Intel Atom 525 CPU with […]