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Originally Posted by twitchyzero
just as an aside, the best peripheral to go with any HTPC is the dinovo edge keyboard but only if you have spare cash to spend after buying all those parts. It's got a hefty pricetag but you can find one for 150ish when they go on sale (total worth it for that price).
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/ke...s/192&cl=us,en (this is Logitech US..the product is no longer on Logitech Canada for some reason) |
diNovo Mini is what I use. Super small but still fairly usable.
I think building it on your own puts you about on par pricewise to the system you linked. I haven't had a chance to try out the new Ion chipset but the Atom with the standard Intel 945 chipset was barely able to handle a 720p MKV playback. I'm sure the Nvidia chipset has some kind of hardware acceleration that will help it, but it's still an underpowered processor regardless, especially if you plan to rip/encode Bluray content. You'll want a fairly hefty processor to perform any encoding tasks.