Other than the storage, I really don't see the point in these. HP's media center PCs have a really useful built in bay for an additional hard drive to plug in via USB. I never shut my XP media center PC down, and can connect with it anytime I want using ORB anyway. MS would be smart to allow WHS to be installed on old machines.
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Other than the storage, I really don't see the point in these. HP's media center PCs have a really useful built in bay for an additional hard drive to plug in via USB. I never shut my XP media center PC down, and can connect with it anytime I want using ORB anyway. MS would be smart to allow WHS to be installed on old machines.