hahahahaha. Great !

(I'm sure loading this page and a few reloads of your Facebook pages equals several minutes of music.)

I have the same box (originally from m-cube), and I use it for exact same purposes (amongst others) but with no drives in it - all stored on a 10TB RAID5 server humming along in the basement. I have the black version, and with zero moving parts, all passive cooling it is really a perfect "htpc" for ripping and playback of audio, video etc.

Hmm, how about a USB external soundcard with SPDIF (something like this http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.15745) and run a media player (music player daemon) on it that is web controlled from somewhere else? Plug into a set of active speakers.

A lot cheaper than (but admittedly not as sexy as) Squeeze Duet ;-)

Hmmmmmm ...

Consider the cost of down time of a) seismic survey vessel (cost approx $150,000 - $200.000 per DAY), b) real time drilling operations, c) oil and gas exploration ... and cross plot that with the cost of Geforce & Quadro line graphics cards.

In short : The price of these graphics cards are *non issues*. If the seismic vessel's PCs crap out then they could buy 60 of these cards JUST to cover *one day of operation*. (Now, seriously, Nvidia Quadro's are used all over the world in vessels for advanced analysis and real time visualization of terabytes of data. Not a Geforce to be found in sight.)

Wondering about the same thing. I have an Asus VX2S (8600GT 512MB) and would be keen to upgrade if possible. (More memory being the primary reason, not for gaming purposes but for oil and gas interpretation work...)

Every time I see something like this I take a look at my Nokia maemo device and can't help to think that the wheel is getting invented time and time again.

As a complete diversion: I wish they (Nokia) would be able to give Symbian the boot and have the E90 type PDA/phone run Linux as well as the N800 type devices do. I probably don't fall in the 'average business user' category (who does?) because I really do enjoy the level of customization I am able to achieve with my N810.

-D

Out of curiosity : What is wrong with a software based approach?

Take a look at Mirial softphone from Dylogic (http://www.dylogic.com/products/Mirial_Softphone_HD.html), it has 720p support.

For the record, we're using Polycom PVX primarily (over a corporate wan) and I've been pestering Polycom to provide support for 720p but they told me that it can't be done due to lack of compute power.

What I would like to see is a low cost multipoint solution. They are just way too expensive for what they are (a DSP or three, a few Ethernet logic).

-D

Yes, the Brazilian market is sooooo special. This PC, in fact, can not, I repeat, truly can not, be used in any other market. It is indeed so customized to the Brazilian market that ...

(Oh anyhow, just typical Philips bullshit).

People seem to miss that external graphics cards are already on the market -- with none of the problems you refer to.

Check Nvidia's pages for the QuadroPlex.

OUT : ATI FireGL v5200
IN : Nvidia Quadro FX 2500 (512MB)

ATI has way too large share of the notebook market for my taste, and since Lenovo is launching a "Linux" laptop I would strongly recommend them to go with the Nvidia card instead of ATI given ATI's terrible driver support on Linux.