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Cool Tech PC announced the launch of Nexus Psile. It’s a compact and good-looking PC with extended multimedia functions. The Nexus Psile features Intel Core Duo or Core 2 Duo CPUs, 350 or 500 GB HDD, Panasonic UJ-845 slim DVD-RW Drive, TV Tuner, External fanless power supply. It’s based on Windows Media Center Edition.

The Nexus Psile can be used as full featured PC and home entertainment appliance or DVR as well. The typical retail cost of a fully loaded and complete Nexus Psile computer system is approximately $1600.00, but there is a possibility to customize configuretion.

[via eHomeUpgrade]

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Okoro Media System produced OMS-SX100 - Digital Entertainment System which is designed to handle all of your multimedia needs while keeping an ultra low profile. For $1350 you can get Intel Core Duo T2300 Yonah 667 MHz processor, 1GB RAM, Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 with HDMI Output, 250 GB SATA HDD, a DVD burner, 8 channel sound, an internal TV/radio tuner and a USB ATSC tuner in the elegant and slim case (39.12 x 6.86 x 34.80 cm).

There is a possibility to pay extra money and upgrade HTPC configuration including case with touchscreen. The OMS-SX100 comes with WinXP Home, WinXP Pro or MCE 2005 editions. You can also order it with BeyondTV or SageTV preinstalled. I suspect that it’s possible to install there one of the Linux-based PVR systems: VDR, MythTV or Freevo.

[via PVRWIRE]

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Japanese computer manufactor DosPara produced a real competitor of Mac Mini - Super Mini 2. It contains 4.3-cm thick case 1.66GHz T5500 C2D processor, 512MB of ram, 80GB HDD, a dual-layer DVD burner, gigabit Ethernet, 802.11a/b/g WiFi, a 4-in-1 card reader, DVI and S-Video outs, and a TV tuner (optional).

Spend $1,043 USD and got stylish and quiet media PC in your living room. But IMHO Mac Mini is much better
[via Engadget]

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CoolIT Systems showed on CEDIA its latest product - the Home Theater PC (HTPC) Cooler. It’s self-contained system is designed to fit a traditional Media Center PC case in the space reserved for dual 3-inch fans, and can be configured to cool both the PC’s CPU and graphics processor.

The benefit of liquid cooling over traditional fans is obvious: noiseless work and better cooling. So, it’s good opportunity to use the HTPC Cooler.

[via Ubergizmo]

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Lx8100-AM2BB-M2NPV-VM HTPC Bare Bone will be interesting for all who’d like to build HTPC by themsevse and not use something ready. The bare bone includes a nice looking case with changeable front plates, LX8100 AMD 939 Motherboard with integrated NVIDIA® GeForce™ 6150/nForce™ 430 and SilentX 14dba Power Supply. Additionally, it has the 9-in-1 read reader, TV-Out, DVI, VGA, front USB/1394 and sound ports. There is a possibility to install VFD display to show some useful information.

The bare bond comes with free remote control and Fedora 5 based installation / recovery DVD. The DVD will get Linux users up and running in no time because many applications and drivers like 3D Video drivers, LIRC, sensors, Video for Linux(V4l), sound, TV viewers and radio applications are installed with the needed LIRC bindings for the included remote control.
There are available three configuration on the LinuxToys: without motherboard ($209.00), with motherboard ($319.00) and full set equiped with AMD AM2 3000+, 512 MB RAM, 250Gb HDD, DVD/CDRW, TV-Capture and installed and configured Linux-based media applications such as TV-Time, Kradio and KDETV ($559.00).

We’re going to buy the second configuration to use it as Plutohome Media Director. The nice price and appropriate hardware make this bare bond very attractive to use in Plutohome system.

[via lixsystems]

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