With the announcement of Adobe Flash 10.1 Beta, the nVidia ION system seems even more attractive as an HTPC. Also, it seems NewEgg is carrying the new Zotac ION board. Also, through Bing Shopping, NewEgg is offering some (2%) moneyback.
The prices are based on November 20th, 2009.
Case: Apex MI-008 ($39.99) – 250W is [...]
Another attempt… Probably closer to what I would do. The prices are based on November 4th, 2009.
Case: Apex MI-008 ($39.99) – 250W is a bit overkill. I doubt this system will use more than 60W.
Motherboard: Pegatron IPX7A-ION 330 ($149.00, the same as POV ION330) or Zotac IONITX-G-E (MSRP seems to be $159.99, [...]
After searching around, I found a PCI-e dual ATSC tuner that has a Linux driver (not sure how reliable). The prices are as of October 30, 2009.
Case: Apex MI-008 ($39.99) – 250W is a bit overkill. I doubt this system will use more than 60W.
Motherboard: Pegatron IPX7A-ION 330 ($149.00) – the same as [...]
I’ve talked about ideas for Atom-based DVR / HTPC before.
Now, it seems we have all the parts needed to build one. Here is an example. The prices were taken as of October 27th, 2009.
Case: Apex MI-008 ($39.99) – 250W is a bit overkill. I doubt this system will use more than 60W.
Motherboard: [...]
Well, that’s what I feel like shouting when I visit Amazon.com oftentimes. I sometimes go to their “My Recommendation” page and see what they think would interests me. And most of the times, I end up wasting half an hour giving negative feedback to their recommendations so that that feature might be remotely [...]