Gateway's 832GM Media Center PC
By Ryan Block 
posted April 11th 2005 7:25AM
posted April 11th 2005 7:25AM
Looks like Gateway's a little light on the official details, but it appears they're back at it with their latest Media Center PC, the 832GM. It's got a 3.0GHz Pentium 4 630, 1GB of DDR SDRAM, 250GB drive, an 8-in-1 card reader, 7 USB 2.0 ports, 2 FireWire ports, and loads of drive bays and PCI slots. We're usually a bit more stoked at more living-room centric form factors than the typical beige box—BTX or not—but you just can't argue with specs like these.
No mention of the monitor size? Boo.
Don't buy this. Gateway in the past have not supported the upgrade of the Windows Media Center software so you'll get stuck with an old version!
Actually you won't because Microsoft is making all future versions of Windows Media Center available via Windows Update for all current and future Windows Media Center 2005 owners.
Does anyone know if this is going to be sold at Best Buy?
Yes, I bought mine at Best Buy in Indianapolis on April 22nd, 2005. Can't wait to get it set up!