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The Acer Aspire X1200 offers an amazing range of features for a system that has a diminutive form factor of 10.6 x 4.0 x 14.4 inches:
The Aspire X1200 is aimed squarely at the home theater/PC entertainment crowd. It's small enough to fit inconspicuously beside your home theater system and HDTV, and by adding a TV tuner, you can turn it into a full-bore entertainment system.
For more information, see Acer's press release.
How about it? Are you looking for a low-cost PC for home theater use? Are you already using a PC with these components? Share your thoughts.
(personal note: I'm almost done with my book on Windows Vista Media Center, and I'd love to have one of these in my living room instead of the hulking full-tower PC I'm using for WMC right now)
Figure courtesy Crunchgear
Links:
[1] http://www.maximumpc.com/user/marcus_soperus
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[4] http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_8200mgpu.html
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[12] http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0768681278
[13] http://www.maximumpc.com/article/reviews/acer_travelmate_5720
[14] http://www.maximumpc.com/article/creative_home_theater_connect_dts_610
[15] http://www.maximumpc.com/article/dual_core_cpus_level_the_playing_field
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