Its all about the interface, how it looks, how it reacts, how speedy or sluggish it is..

A friend of mine just recently bought the xtreamer, and its really quite a nice little unit, I've purchased an older emachines sff machine with an onboard geforce 8200 and hdmi out which is a perfect candidate for xbmc as the gpu fully supports vdpau, and has hdmi out.

Along with the comparison, we need to see some video of these working, it could have all the features in the world but have an ugly slow interface no-one would ever want to use.

show us!

Bah.. 8 bux a month - usenet access.
25mbit pure stream downloading, commercial free, a 1 hour show in ~3 minutes or so.. I'd say thats pretty much on demand.
Toss it into a folder, play it using Plex on my plasma.

Well first of all, I have a nice hackint0sh runnins Snow Leopard and Windows 7 in dual boot. So I'm getting a kick out of the fanboyism. Its a great machine, Quad core, 8gb ram and an 8800GT, runs both os's perfectly.

I like both os's, I really do.. Vista was such an absolute train wreck it pushed me to OSX, which I now find to be the easiest, most comforatable and powerful os there is, and yes I've burned / tried so many distros of linux the stack of disks would fall on me and kill me one day.

7 will win.

This is why.

ION.

Low power ' good enough ' computing which is cheap and decently powerful will rule, especially nettops - Asrock 330, Zotac Mag, Viewsonic VOT132, Acer Aspire Revo, Funtwist Fiona to name a few, small, quiet, power sipping devices which run Win 7 pretty damn nicely. They are a force to be reckoned with for the general population of which Apple has no defences.

This comment system is broken.. this is the third attempt to add a reply.

Acer Revo runs XBMC and full HD like a champ.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf5h6QxFleE

I say get the Acer Aspire Revo and run XBMC on it.

They're only running 200 @ newegg, but it'd be a better experience.

@ gage006 -

Came for the ' installing OSX on a Dell Mini 10v ' reference..
Leaving satisfied.
Even better when you can get a moblin equipped one and save the microsoft tax.

Why did I read this as epileptic labs..

Snow Leo is working nice on my Q9400/EP45 DS3R/4GB/8800GT Hackintosh.. Turns out 10A432 was indeed the GM.

Update/Install - my user accounts are intact from Leopard - Snow Leo is definately working nicely. - I'll go buy the family pack and I suggest you all do too.

Wow....

Build 7600 16835 Is the Final RTM, 7600 Build 16836 is the Commercial release with all the language packs.
I have it installed in a vm and on a couple computers, and its fully activated - 93 days before its in the store.

Exactly THIS.

I have a compaq sitting on my desk with a broken power connector..
Magsafe ftw.