I'm on my 2nd Media Center PC now. First 1 I built myself, worked pretty good for a couple years but I had a lot of hardware problems. Maybe because I had it in a
sexy half-height "entertainment center" case, but I think I had enough cooling. More likely it was hardware incompatibility problems...
Anyway, finally I decided to get
something prebuilt for about 1/4 of what I put into the original. This unit's got a few niggling software issues, but nothing that's really keeping me from using it as I want. Basically I'm pretty pleased with the platform. DVR and program guide functions work great, music catalog is easy to use, can access photos and vids elsewhere on the network easily, plus full Windows PC functionality right there when needed.
BTW, I'm selling my old case and hardware bits- if anyone's interested, get in touch and we'll talk
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Carl Fisher
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