To all those who are whining about the price -- that's the European pricing quoted in dollars. No one knows what it will be priced at in the US yet, but it's likely to be lower than $680, possibly as low as $500, but probably no lower. The 1080p-capable low-power HTPC market is still an early adopter's market, so you're not going to see that many bargains out there for a while. But come this time next year, there should plenty of bargains to chose from, coming in anywhere from $200 to $400 depending on the hardware and software configurations.
I bought a WDTV which will do me fine until the HTPC prices come down.
The phone has 256MB of RAM and a 1GHz processor, which do the job reasonably well, though the Anna interface will likely leave something to be desired for many smartphone users.
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To all those who are whining about the price -- that's the European pricing quoted in dollars. No one knows what it will be priced at in the US yet, but it's likely to be lower than $680, possibly as low as $500, but probably no lower. The 1080p-capable low-power HTPC market is still an early adopter's market, so you're not going to see that many bargains out there for a while. But come this time next year, there should plenty of bargains to chose from, coming in anywhere from $200 to $400 depending on the hardware and software configurations.
I bought a WDTV which will do me fine until the HTPC prices come down.
that's still at least $150 more than it should be.
Nope, take the ASRock @ $370, add in Windows 7 and the sleeker consumer packaging and you get around $500 give or take.
The right price is whatever ASUS can see it for and make a decent profit. Prices will come down in time. They always do.