Mike's Blog

June 2008 - Posts

• Linksys DMA-2100 $199 (or cheaper) at dell.com

  As a poster at thegreenbutton.com pointed out Dell is selling the Linksys DMA-2100 for $199 right now.  But you can get it even cheaper.  If your company has an employee purchase program with Dell you get an extra $50 off select network hardware right now and that does include the DMA-2100, on top of that if you pay with your Dell credit account you'll get an extra 4% off.  So after taxes and shipping the unit cost me $129.  If you've been waiting, I'd say now is the time to go pick one up. Cross Posted from My Media Center Blog Posted Jun 28 2008, 09:23 PM by mabrown with no comments

• VidaBox PicoPC

  I just received an email from VidaBox about a a new product they're releasing.  Before I go any further I must say that I think VidaBox is a great company and are doing great things for the Media Center community.  The new product is called the PicoPC.  It's a small PC running XPe (embedded XP) on solid state disks so there are no moving parts.  They're marketing as a PC for your HDTV to use to surf the net and check email.  I thought that phase (webtv anyone?) was over but I guess I was wrong.  Also the box is almost a grand, $929. I'm sorry guys, but I'm just not seeing the value.  I hope this new area doesn't distract them from their true talent of building very nice Media Centers. Cross Posted from My Media Center Blog Posted Jun 23 2008, 10:17 PM by mabrown with no comments