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I picked up an Acer refurb for a cheap media box; 4Gb, Dual Core 5000+, DVD, etc. Vista home premium, NINE USB ports, eSATA, Firewire, and GeForce 8200 graphics and a very small form factor for $350.

It's doggone good, I'm only using it to play movies from the NAS and off of Netflix so it doesn't see any heavy duty use but price/performance has been so good that I'm going for their AH340-UA230N home server to replace the first gen NAS box that I'm not real fond of.

No way could I build something in those form factors for those prices.

12 posted on 06/30/2009 1:07:02 PM PDT by Proud_texan (Scare people enough and they'll do anything.)
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No way could I build something in those form factors for those prices.

Yeah. A guy can't build a box for what he can buy one these days. ...at least until you get up there in the price spectrum a bit.

19 posted on 06/30/2009 1:13:25 PM PDT by TChris (There is no freedom without the possibility of failure.)
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