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Interesting PC that could work as a HTPC:

http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/01/the-ali...-packages/

and

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/jacks-blog-...-10025238/

Currently no Blu-Ray reader option (although one article I read suggests there should be one) and you have to have a 1TB hard drive, so no way to save money if you want to stream from a NAS. Pricing is annoying, base model is $699 in the US and £699 in the UK. You have to have Windows 7 Home Premium too.

I'm still tempted though

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seems a bit overkill if you ask me, unless you want to play games..

I am concerned about.
1. Power consumption.
2. missing SSD disk
3. cheapest model comes with a i3 2120 CPU which is enough for a HTPC.. but the graphic card is a mobile card, so I can have my doubt that bitstream sound, and how well this GPU is..
4. price is steep..

the cabinet looks awsome though..

I would probably get this one instead, but I haven't read any reviews of it, so might be cra*
http://www.zotacusa.com/zbox-giga-id70-plus.html