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Here are the specs from the Sony website:

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Intel® Pentium® D Processor 920 (2.80GHz and 800 MHz FSB) and Intel® Pro/Wireless 802.11bg

Genuine Microsoft® Windows® Media Center Edition 2005 (English version)

250 GB (S ATA / 7200rpm) hard disk drive

1 GB DDR2-533 SDRAM (2*512 MB), maximum 2 GB DDR2-533 SDRAM

NVIDIA® Geforce™ 6600 graphics card with 128 MB DDR SDRAM

Sound and Video Mastering Platform fully supporting the DSD Audio and HD Video standards

Super Multi Double layer DVD±RW drive

Wireless keyboard (QWERTY) with integrated touchpad and remote control bundled



From Newegg;

MS MCE 2005 - $130

NEC DVD-DL -$40

Intel CPU - $269

RAM(2x512DDR2) - $65

HD(250GB SATA) - $90

945P motherboard - ~$100

6600 video card(with HDTV out) - ~$150

Adds up to $844, that leaves ~$150 for a case, PSU and wireless keyboard. Maybe not exactly $1K, but pretty close.



One has to remember that $1760 is the price in the UK with VAT. Prices in the US are usually considerably lower, probably $1500 or less here.]]>Jan 13th 2006 12:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/13/sony-vaio-vgx-xl100-viiv-media-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/13/sony-vaio-vgx-xl100-viiv-media-pc/Jan 13th 2006 12:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/13/sony-vaio-vgx-xl100-viiv-media-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/13/sony-vaio-vgx-xl100-viiv-media-pc/Jan 13th 2006 12:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/13/sony-vaio-vgx-xl100-viiv-media-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/13/sony-vaio-vgx-xl100-viiv-media-pc/


I've had too many of their overpriced products fail on me to ever give them another cent.]]>Jan 13th 2006 1:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/13/sony-vaio-vgx-xl100-viiv-media-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/13/sony-vaio-vgx-xl100-viiv-media-pc/Jan 13th 2006 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/13/sony-vaio-vgx-xl100-viiv-media-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/13/sony-vaio-vgx-xl100-viiv-media-pc/Jan 14th 2006 12:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/13/sony-vaio-vgx-xl100-viiv-media-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/13/sony-vaio-vgx-xl100-viiv-media-pc/Jan 14th 2006 11:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/13/sony-vaio-vgx-xl100-viiv-media-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/13/sony-vaio-vgx-xl100-viiv-media-pc/Jan 15th 2006 5:19AM