Pegatron showing off miniature Tegra 2-powered home theater PC

If all these tablet and smartbook shenanigans haven't won you over, but you still feel the call of Tegra 2, Pegatron might have your number. We spotted this details-scarce nettop-ish home theater PC lurking around the NVIDIA booth today, just looking to be loved. The thin plastic box is topped by what looks to be bamboo, with HDMI, Ethernet, microphone and speaker plugs around back. We're very much in the dark as to supposed capabilities or software, but Tegra 2 gives us a good hint: the chip can decode 1080p and Flash video, runs Android or Windows CE, and is the same thing under the hood of the Boxee Box. We imagine something like this going for $100 (though no price or release date has been mentioned) or so and acting as a great little home theater PC for the right sort of user if and when it hits the market.

Pegatron showing off miniature Tegra 2-powered home theater PC

[bigcow05 Posted Mar 25th 2010 3:47AM]

If this could be converted to a Linux PC, this + Guru trackpoint keyboard + random 22in monitor would be the tidiest effing setup evar.

[Michael Kirschner Posted Mar 25th 2010 10:32AM]

This would go well with my bitchin' station wagon

[mainfram3 Posted Mar 25th 2010 11:29AM]

No 5.1 audio output.
You cannot have a HTPC without (at least) 5.1 audio.
Repeat after me: "Doesn't have 5.1 then it's not a HTPC".

[rk8801 Posted Apr 12th 2010 3:55PM]

@mainfram3 "No 5.1 audio output. You cannot have a HTPC without (at least) 5.1 audio. Repeat after me: 'Doesn't have 5.1 then it's not a HTPC.'"

Who says there's no 5.1 audio output? I didn't see anything in that story that said it couldn't do 5.1. It has HDMI out. Are you complaining that it doesn't have analog outputs? Would you also like coax out? Maybe some wires for your UHF/VHF screwdowns?