You know, with the PS3 slumming it in
a lower weight class and $300 price point, you'd think it'd be hard to sell people on costlier "Blu-ray Digital Entertainment Systems," but that hasn't stopped Okoro from trying. Updating its
BX300 unit with dual Blu-ray
Lightscribe drives, a Core i7-920, 6GB of 1,333MHz DDR3, pair of hot swappable 2TB HDDs in RAID1, and a 64GB SSD for OS duties is all well and good (okay, it's kind of awesome), but -- even though it has come down some -- the price is still a loony $3,095. There are also dual NTSC /
ATSC /
QAM tuners and a
CableCARD option to go along with an ATI Radeon HD 4850 -- and for an extra $800, you can get the slinkier touch pad remote-pimping version pictured on the right. Ah well, just another reason to envy rich people.
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posted Aug 27th 2009 8:27AM
oh yeah... it can play crysis
Almost any computer can but not maxed out. That system needs a better gpu if you want to max out crysis but then again it depends on the resolution you want to play at.
I AM High (end), dude how did you know?
it actually says that in the specs " You can play the newest video games such as Crysis". lol
Erm...why does a HTPC need a Core i7, 6GB of RAM and a Radeon 4850? That's firm gamer territory.
1080p pron.
@Matt,
It's pr0n.
umm, so you can game on it? Not sure if you're aware, but you can actually play games on computers these days... computers are more than just word processing and spreadsheets these days!
My HTPC has i7 920, 6GB, 295 GTX and watercooling. Gamers watch TV (sometimes). Origenae S16V FTW!
Why does god need a spaceship?
This sounds hot. As in it would need a loud cooling system. I thought companies were trying to quiet down their HTPCs these days
for that price I think I can build a WHS, a desktop PC and a dedicated HTPC and maybe still some spare cash to buy a 24" monitor
3 months ago I had a better spec'd and much better looking custom built HTPC( with even a 7" lcd touch screen on the case), top notch graph and sound card , 3 X 500 GB raptor HD (RAID conf) , and all the goodies I and the builder could come up with; and even including the price of the black box that multiplied by a factor of four the HDMI outlet and the assembler fees also for setting it up and connecting it to my screens and sourround sys and HIFI sys (in another room) I managed to spend less.
Oh for sure, and then some.
ASRock ION 330 for Media Center - $400 (or Aspire Revo if you don't want to roll your own OS install)
Hauppauge External USB TV Tuner - $100 (works with the ASRock, from personal experience)
Aspire Easystore - $450 (bought when they threw in an extra 1TB drive for 2TB total)
HP Pavillion Elite - $1100 (same CPU as Okoro, 9GB RAM, BD player, Nvidia GT250)
Dell 24" monitor - $220
You still have $800 left over, so you can get something like the VIERA 42" 1080p TV, if you don't already have a flat panel. (and that's based on the cheaper Okoro).
If you do, you can spread that money around to a netbook, upping the server storage, spend an extra $200 to get the BD version of the ASRock (if you don't have a BD player already)
In short, there's a lot of ways to better spend the money for
Instead of envying the rich for buying a product like this, I choose to pity them. How sad it must be to attempt to fill the empty hole in your soul with yet more stuff. Sad indeed.
@That Guy
I fill the empty hole in my soul with a bright green emerald of raw, unadulterated, spiteful envy towards the rich... :)
...oh yeah, and God and my wife and little girl and stuff...
where can i get a touchscreen remote like that???
or is this a modded n800?
Not envy, pity.
ooh, I like the case on the right - can we find it for purchase by itself anywhere?
Yeah great buy all the same hardware and save yourself $1000 or however much it is. Then spend weeks configuring it so it works correctly. And no I am not just talking about installing Windows with the latest drivers but all the right codex, plugins and software to make it play back any format and look ultra pretty and wife friendly on the screen. Of course you can do all this because you can build a PC and have two or three weeks free to trawl the internet to find out how to get everything to gel together.
Having just spent the last two weeks on building a HTPC machine myself and configuring it (and it still isn't complete software wise yet) I have a reasonably good idea about what I am talking about. So to me that extra $1000 covers the time spent on research and building the configuration and supporting it after the machine has been delivered.
Yes it is a lot of money to spend on the hardware, but look past it just being hardware and look at what else you get. It isn't a machine for the majority of people who read Engadget but the noddy end-users who can't do it themselves but know they want an all singing all dancing HTPC.
Just my 2c worth ;)
So buy another pre configured HTPC. One that's not retardedly overpriced.
Sheesh.
The one on the right ain't bad looking... how much for just the case?
The eye candy in the image at the right actually starts at $5400 - without cablecard tuners. You can slum it with the one on the left for Engadget's quoted price. Even at the hi-end, you could spend a bunch less for a killer build from a boutique OEM.