RE: [ukha_d] Media Centre PC for <£300

["John Andrews" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul

Cheers for this, I was in the market for a media centre machine for my
folk=
s
- and at that price! A bargain.

Let you know how I get on.

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-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Paul Gordon
Sent: 27 August 2005 17:38
To: UKHA_D Group
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Media Centre PC for <=A3300

Yes it has embedded 10/100 Realtek NIC on board.

>From memory, it has a standard set of 3 x 3.5mm jack plugs for
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>5.1 audio, and I'm 99% sure there is an optical SPDIF out too, - but
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>can't remember if the optical out is on the back, the front, or
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>(I'm sure I can remember seeing an optical out on the front behind
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>flap, - but I can't remember if this is duplicated round the back or=20
>not...)

A full description of the machine can be found here:

http://tinyurl.com/9hn9w

HTH

Paul G.


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> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf=20
> Of John Andrews
> Sent: 27 August 2005 17:25
> To: UKHA_D Group
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Media Centre PC for <=A3300
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> Paul
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> I'm interested in this PC! Can I ask what type of audio? I.E. coax,=20
> spdif, and does it support dolby digital?
> You mention a wifi card, does it have network on board too?
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> Thanks in advance (credit card at the ready)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf=20
> Of Paul Gordon
> Sent: 27 August 2005 15:41
> To: UKHA_D Group
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Media Centre PC for <=A3300
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> Hi Pete
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> This system is the one my parents bought back in January from PC=20
> World, at the then (what I thought was a good) price of =A3599 without
a
monitor.
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> It's not a bad machine, - they've had a HDD failure, but that's
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> luck of the draw I think, - and not indicative of anything relating
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> the overall quality of the kit.
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> At that price, I'd say it's a bit of a B.... B.... Bargain! (TM)
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> It's only got a single analogue TV tuner in it, and IIRC no spare
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> slots as standard, however, it does have a modem and a WiFi card
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> taking up a PCI slot each, - both of which I've removed from the=20
> machine, and if you don't need those devices (and who needs an=20
> analogue modem in a desktop
> PC?)
> then you could easily free up those slots and put in a pair of=20
> freeview cards...
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> There's a full-size IEEE1394 (Firewire) port on the back, and a=20
> mini-firewire port on the front and 4 USB2.0 on the rear, and 2 up
front.
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> The whole front panel is a mirrored with proper mirror glass (it has
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> plastic film on it which you should remove for the best appearance).
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> The entire right-hand side (when upright, as in the illustration) is
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> push-to-open flap, behind which resides a memory card reader
(there's=20
> no FDD on this machine), plus the usual array of ports; USB x 2,=20
> Firewire x 1, and a full set of audio ports.
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> The top left part (when upright, as in the illustration) houses the=20
> optical drive, which also has the same mirrored glass fascia (when=20
> closed you can't actually tell it's there), which is a multi-format=20
> DVD rewriter (might be dual-layer as well, - I can't actually
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> for sure, but I *think* it
> is...)
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> It's a fairly deep case - not as small as the Maplins book PC's
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> were popular a couple of years ago, but it is still reasonably
small..=20
> (It was the smallest machine that PC World sold at the time...
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> HTH
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> Paul G.
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On=20
> > Behalf Of White, Peter
> > Sent: 26 August 2005 22:11
> > To: UKHA_D Group
> > Subject: [ukha_d] Media Centre PC for <=A3300
> >
> > With all this chatter about Xbox 360, I was thinking about
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> > out Media Centre (and selling the iMac, it just ain't for me!).
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> > Does this seem like a good deal, in terms of getting something I
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> > play with and understand how good (or bad) MC is?
> >
> > http://www.morgancomputers.co.uk/shop/detail.asp?ProductID=3D1954
> > <http://www.morgancomputers.co.uk/shop/detail.asp?ProductID=3D1954>
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> > Thanks
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> > Pete
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