While Shuttle's
KPC most certainly wasn't aimed at the enthusiast in the crowd, its newest XPC definitely is. The XPC G5 6801M gets going with an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ processor, 2GB of DDR2 RAM, a 320GB hard drive, LG's GGC-H20L Blu-ray / HD DVD combo drive, ATI's 256MB HD 3450 graphics card, a DVB-T tuner, 25-in-1 multicard reader and 7.1-channel audio output. Moreover, you'll find gigabit Ethernet, FireWire, a slew of USB / eSATA ports, DVI / VGA out (DVI-HDMI adapter thrown in) and a bundled remote to make your life even easier. If you're digging where this is going, you can latch on to one of these boxes for €1,091 ($1,727), and if you've turned a cold shoulder to HD DVD, a BD-only unit can be had for €167 ($264) less.
[Via
Bios Magazine]
posted Apr 11th 2008 8:59AM
Nice to know that you don't have to pay for the dead-platform if you don't want to.
The HDDVD should be completely free.
Why is it $264 less? I don't even think there are still HDDVD players that cost that much after the fire sales.
No Beta support?¿!?
I'll pass
Yeah why support HD DVD if its so dead.
Sweet looking rig, now I just need $1,800 bucks to get it or..........................engadget giveaway! Me first I thought it up!
I wish engadget would put something interesting up, how about Veronica Belmont?
(please dont ban me ryan, i kid!)
Veronica ditched Mahallo and is now with Revision 3.
Opps, would should be should
Why would anyone choose to pay for the more expensive hd dvd variant when there is no hd dvd anymore... what a waste.
Perhaps like me they have some hd-dvd's they might like to play? Or, ahem, backup at some point?
Question why doesn't Toshiba just market HDDVD as a backup for professionals...worked for SCSI and Iomega. Sure you won't have the revenue from the "The Big Four" from movies and music but you can still make some change.
The problem is that Sony already has this market with XDCAM and such. Plus, Blu-ray holds more than HD-DVD, in that case, storage is more important than a completed consumer disc spec.
Nice
I really love shuttles..Built one 5yrs ago with a custom case i cut two windows out., and my ExGf still uses the damn thing.. but that price is just waay to much. Id rather build it myself and choose my own parts.
25-in-1 multicard reader? Have there actually been 25 card formats?
No, they just made up some to inflate the numbers.
SM / XD / CF I / CF II / MD /CF-Ultra II / CF Extreme / SD / MMC / MMC II / MMC 4.0 / RS MMC / HS MMC / Mini SD(w/ adapter*) / SD-Ultra II / T-Flash(w/ adapter*) / MS / MS PRO / MS Duo / MS PRO Duo(MG) / MS PRO(MG) / MS(MG) / HS MS PRO(MG) / HS MS PRO DUO(MG) / MS PRO Ultra II
From the website of another 25-in-one card reader. So yeah, they're stretching it a bit.
i think there are about 18 card formats, but over 50 iterations of these formats
Seems more logical to get the barebones version of that case and add in your own parts. The combo drive shouldn't cost that much and it certainly won't cost $1,800 to build a pc out of the barebones version. You can get a combo drive for less than $200.
And, you could easily get a more powerful Dell (or any other) for the $1700. I guess you pay for that small form factor
I just ordered one of their barebones to replace my aging ASUS Espresso HTpc, most amazing things ever.
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/9294/index.html
Asus's version is similarly specced but half the price, what gives? Asus's looks nicer too.
This is about $800 too expensive for what it is.
Give my $900 and ill build something greatly superior.
I don't see WiFi mentioned in the article, but I'm pretty sure that's an wireless NIC antenna sticking out the back...
HD DVD would make sense as a backup solution... You would not need the settop players, because you would only need to store files on the discs. Those files could be backed up roms of your games, TONS of music or many backed up movies.
HD DVD should be kept alive as a DVD replacement for pc's that cannot (or should not, as in "at the office") go the BluRay way.
Damn! Overprice much?
Aside from the price of the entire unit which is captain insano, 264 for the difference between HDDVD and no HDDVD?
The BRD writer on newegg is 125. The BRD/HDDVD writer combo is 175. It's been a long time since I had math, but I think that's 50 bucks, or about a 500% markup on the difference in cost between BRD only and HDDVD in the LG drives.
the disc is upside down