One nice looking MCE box
I am a huge fan of building your own PVR / DVR, mainly because of the flexibility that you can achieve, but there are exceptions from time to time. For example, Electronic House has a spotlight post on the new Integra NVS-7.7. This thing is slick. Slick enough for me to want one …. badly.
The unit runs a P4 2.8 GHz Dual 820 processor, 1 GB of RAM and a nice 400 GB hard drive. The operating system of choice is Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 which adds to the simplicity of the unit.
Looking at pictures of this unit shows that it has an LCD front panel display and more inputs & outputs on the back than some stereo systems I have owned. No word on how quiet this puppy runs, but if they took as much care with that as they did with everything else, I wouldn’t be too concerned. Of course there is the downside: MSRP $3000. One can dream.
Edit: Digital Trends has a more in-depth look at this system.
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I wouldn’t buy anything with a P4 in it today. They’re all obsolete with Conroe shipping. The P4 will be gone completely before long.
Although I agree with you that I wouldn’t buy a non-Conroe P4 for day to day use at this point, I don’t know how much I would care about it in this system. For the most part I wouldn’t be gaming on this thing and video encoding probably wouldn’t happen too often. I would use it as a media PC vs. a desktop replacement.
Its sort of like buying a PocketPC: if you look at the CPUs in them, they are in the low x00 MHz, but that’s all you need for those systems.