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It's pr0n.]]>Aug 27th 2009 9:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/okoro-oms-bx300-goes-for-the-you-must-be-high-end/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/okoro-oms-bx300-goes-for-the-you-must-be-high-end/Aug 27th 2009 9:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/okoro-oms-bx300-goes-for-the-you-must-be-high-end/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/okoro-oms-bx300-goes-for-the-you-must-be-high-end/Aug 27th 2009 12:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/okoro-oms-bx300-goes-for-the-you-must-be-high-end/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/okoro-oms-bx300-goes-for-the-you-must-be-high-end/Aug 27th 2009 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/okoro-oms-bx300-goes-for-the-you-must-be-high-end/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/okoro-oms-bx300-goes-for-the-you-must-be-high-end/Aug 27th 2009 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/okoro-oms-bx300-goes-for-the-you-must-be-high-end/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/okoro-oms-bx300-goes-for-the-you-must-be-high-end/Aug 27th 2009 9:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/okoro-oms-bx300-goes-for-the-you-must-be-high-end/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/okoro-oms-bx300-goes-for-the-you-must-be-high-end/]]>Aug 27th 2009 9:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/okoro-oms-bx300-goes-for-the-you-must-be-high-end/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/okoro-oms-bx300-goes-for-the-you-must-be-high-end/
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 ]]>Aug 27th 2009 10:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/okoro-oms-bx300-goes-for-the-you-must-be-high-end/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/okoro-oms-bx300-goes-for-the-you-must-be-high-end/Aug 27th 2009 9:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/okoro-oms-bx300-goes-for-the-you-must-be-high-end/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/okoro-oms-bx300-goes-for-the-you-must-be-high-end/
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...]]>Aug 27th 2009 11:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/okoro-oms-bx300-goes-for-the-you-must-be-high-end/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/okoro-oms-bx300-goes-for-the-you-must-be-high-end/or is this a modded n800?]]>Aug 27th 2009 9:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/okoro-oms-bx300-goes-for-the-you-must-be-high-end/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/okoro-oms-bx300-goes-for-the-you-must-be-high-end/Aug 27th 2009 9:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/okoro-oms-bx300-goes-for-the-you-must-be-high-end/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/okoro-oms-bx300-goes-for-the-you-must-be-high-end/Aug 27th 2009 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/okoro-oms-bx300-goes-for-the-you-must-be-high-end/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/okoro-oms-bx300-goes-for-the-you-must-be-high-end/
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 ;)]]>Aug 27th 2009 11:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/okoro-oms-bx300-goes-for-the-you-must-be-high-end/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/okoro-oms-bx300-goes-for-the-you-must-be-high-end/
Sheesh.]]>Aug 28th 2009 6:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/okoro-oms-bx300-goes-for-the-you-must-be-high-end/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/okoro-oms-bx300-goes-for-the-you-must-be-high-end/Aug 27th 2009 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/okoro-oms-bx300-goes-for-the-you-must-be-high-end/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/okoro-oms-bx300-goes-for-the-you-must-be-high-end/Aug 27th 2009 3:01PM