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According to nVidia, the Personal Cinema is compatable with all nVidia chipsets though that is limited to the manufacturer's implementation. Making a make-shift "Media Center" PC would be alot simpler this way than adding an ATI All-in-Wonder as most people do (Or a full-function hardware MPEG2 encoding TV Tuner as the legitimate XP Media Center XPCs use).
If it truely is supposed to be an all-in-one PC, this should have been available at least as an option from the start. The nForce2 one is the only XPC I would consider even close to being "all-in-one" because it has the most features and gas the only decent on-board graphics which you can skimp on replacing for most tasks.
If another mobo manufacturer tries to compete with a small proprietary form factor using an nForce2 chipset, Personal Cinema is all it would take to steal Shuttle's customers so they'd better get cracking...
Of course, I'd also like Gigabit ethernet so I could knock off the DVD/CD-ROM and use Daemon-Tools to mount virtual DVD images from a file serverand boot off a tiny laptop drive but they wouldn't shrink the case for such a proprietary setup
If it truely is supposed to be an all-in-one PC, this should have been available at least as an option from the start. The nForce2 one is the only XPC I would consider even close to being "all-in-one" because it has the most features and gas the only decent on-board graphics which you can skimp on replacing for most tasks.
If another mobo manufacturer tries to compete with a small proprietary form factor using an nForce2 chipset, Personal Cinema is all it would take to steal Shuttle's customers so they'd better get cracking...
Of course, I'd also like Gigabit ethernet so I could knock off the DVD/CD-ROM and use Daemon-Tools to mount virtual DVD images from a file serverand boot off a tiny laptop drive but they wouldn't shrink the case for such a proprietary setup
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