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Try an Revo R3600 (~ £150 GBP) and XBMC live. The Revo is excellent, very very quite (much quieter than my sky+ PVR), about the size of an original apple tv, has HDMI and VGA output AND comes with a VESA stand that that you can use to hang it directly on the back of your TV (unless it's wall mounted). XMBC live installs very easily and quickly, once you've found a usb cd/dvdrom to boot it from :) The only other thing I needed was a remote / usb receiver but I just bought the cheapest windows media centre one I could find. HTH

XMBC Live on a Atom + Ion machine.
Something like the Acer R3610 ( http://www.acer.co.uk/acer/productv.do?LanguageISOCtxParam=en&kcond61e.c2att101=68913&sp=page16e&ctx2.c2att1=17&link=ln438e&CountryISOCtxParam=UK&ctx1g.c2att92=242&ctx1.att21k=1&CRC=2669969291 )
It can process 1080P h.264 without breaking a sweat.

I don't think that he did sociological studies, but this and this, might indicate that he's right. Not exactly sports teams, but close enough.

The screen aspect ratio is locked at 16:9 even though no such monitor exists for PC

While I won't argue that it's stupid to have a locked aspect ratio, you are very much mistaken in your claim. Even if we ignore the fact that you can easily hook up your PC to your full HD tv or projector, there are quite a few 16:9 monitors on the market.

BenQ has at least one series of Full HD monitors
Samsung has at least one full HD monitor
Acer has 8 models tagged as 16:9 HD
Fujitsu Siemens has at least two models

linpus is distributed by http://linpus.com/ but the fact is that on his own ftp ftp://ftp.linpus.com/ there is not the source code of GNU/linux, only *.rpm all this is happen why a person wrote to William Gallafent describing his problem:

Re: Acer Aspire One: GPL situation?

2008/8/4, William Gallafent :
> I recently purchased one of these machines (manufactured by Acer, http://www.acer.co.uk/

which runs Linpus Linux Lite ( http://www.linpus.com/ ). It is a very nice piece of hardware, the price is right (£220), and it runs Linux. What's not to like?

I now wish to see the source code for the GPL software which ships on it.

There is a piece of paper in the box which says "The Linpux Linux GPL source can be downloaded from the website www.linpus.com."

I have searched that web site, and cannot find a download location for the source code.

So far, fairly unsatisfactory, since I would expect it to be a lot easier to locate the source code given the "written offer" quoted above.

I have emailed Linpus and Acer, and await a response from either of them.

I will update the list if I receive a response.

As a footnote, the reason I want to look at the source code is to determine the configuration of the sound hardware, which is not working perfectly for me using ALSA of Xubuntu 8.04.1, nor ALSA 1.0.17.

Additionally, with the shipped version of Linpus Linux the machine locks hard if the wifi is switched to adhoc mode, although it works with managed mode.

With the latest MadWifi HAL and Xubuntu 8.04.1's stock kernel, it no longer locks hard, although I haven't
actually got it to work yet.

I just don't understand why, when the system ships with a recovery DVD (which has plenty of spare capacity), the source code for the whole shipping distribution isn't included in a subdirectory of the DVD that would surely be the most straightforward way to provide it to end-
users!

As a second footnote, the piece of paper says "Copyright (C) 1997-2010 Linpus Technologies, Inc." - one can surely not claim copyright protection for a future date, since the copyright is intrinsically linked to the written text, which must by definition already have been
written in 2008 ??

As a third, according to that document apparently "Linux" is aregistered trademark of Linus Trovalds. Who he? ;)

I like style. I just can't stand Apple's style. That white is just painful to look at.

Here's an example of one case in which style matters: I've been looking for a laptop. Lately, I've been eyeing the Acer Aspire 1520 series. I have two reasons: one is that I love the specs (at least on the UK model, not the US model), but the other is that it's just plain beautiful to look at. To contrast, the HP Pavilion zv5000z has very similar specs, but it's just plain fugly, so it's out of the running. In fact, I refuse to buy HP products because of how ugly they are.

I recently purchased an Acer AL732, and I find it quite good for gaming.

It's 17", does 1280x1024 and the refresh time is 16ms (which equals ~60 fps). Apart from it having a "locked" resoloution (it does a good job on stretching lower res stuff, though) I find it to be very comfortable, not to mention the fact that it's a helluva lot smaller depth-wise than my old 19" Targa monster.

It accepts VGA, DVI, S-Video and Composite (I have it hooked up to a VCR, too) and it even has tiny little CRT iMac-style speakers built in. (All types of cable, apart from DVI, are included)

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