Granted, I just meant to say is for $179 they could have built the unit too look/be more like a legit consumer product rather than a homebrew prototype. That is worst made/looking external 3.5" enclosure money can buy & they're all over ebay like a plague, Red China plague to be exact! Could have been built in a plastic RS project box and looked more legit, LOL.
Sadly we'd have choices besides ammature homebrew and no-name ROC sweatshops if the content cops would stop fighting imaginary battles & let the evolution happen. =( Tharin Olsen wrote: > No doubt a real HTPC built by anyone here would be > much better but there are some definite Pros when > using a STB (turnkey, compact, low power, quiet, no > movable parts, etc). At the moment I wouldn't dream of > replacing my HTPC with something like this, but I > don't want 3-4 HTPCs in my home. Something like this > will be fine for the kitchen, guest bedroom, outdoor > stereo, etc. > > -Tharin O. > > --- j maccraw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm not impressed. >> >> Starting with the case that I would not even cram my >> hdd into (had one, returned as >> junk), the spartan product web site, lastly the >> current bug list tells me this is >> slightly above homebrew. Whatever hardware goes into >> this, I'll bet any of us could >> build better. >> > > <SNIP> > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
