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Fanless Media Center Box

Posted by timothy on from the fins-are-always-cool dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I didn't know that Hush Technologies made Media Center PCs, but they do. Here's a review of one of those beautiful fanless machines running media center 2005. Could this be the perfect media center box?" It's certainly perfectly expensive.

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  1. I didn't know... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Huckster: I didn't know that Hush Technologies made Media Center PCs, but they do.

    Country Rube: Then why is your picture on the case?

    Cue getaway music...

    1. Re:I didn't know... by Tackhead · · Score: 3, Funny
      > Huckster: I didn't know that Hush Technologies made Media Center PCs, but they do.
      >
      >Country Rube: Then why is your picture on the case?
      >
      >Cue getaway music...

      Well, it could be worse.

      Huckster #2: "I didn't know that Hush Technologies had a webserver."

      200,000 Slashdotting Rubes: "What webserver?"

      Cue halon extinguisher activation in the server room.

    2. Re:I didn't know... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      They didn't start chasing us until you turned on that getaway music!

  2. This is certainly pretty... by Suburbanpride · · Score: 5, Funny

    but you can save yourslef some money and do what I do. Turn up the volume on my reciever loud enoguh so you can't hear the fans, or the wife complaining.

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    sorry 'bout the mess...
    1. Re:This is certainly pretty... by jsse · · Score: 2, Funny

      Turn up the volume on my reciever loud enoguh so you can't hear the fans, or the wife complaining.

      You obviously don't have a wife. No loud speaker on earth could stand against wife's complaining. Common tactics by her including, and not limited to:

      1) Hitting your foot with full-powered vacuum cleaner (no, not even 1000W speaker could beat a 1000W vacuum cleaner)
      2) Unplugging the speaker wire on the wrong end, and when it still doesn't work
      3) Yelling directly into one side of your ear

  3. half the price is the dollar by sPaKr · · Score: 2, Funny

    Half the price is the current weak dollar. So I guess we have to 'buy american' to save. Hey all you lazy midwesterns that are crying about manufactures not having any buisness, start making fanless computer cases. Damn slackers.

  4. Re:Google cache (mirror) by jtmas83 · · Score: 3, Funny

    The error message from the server: Server Error in '/' Application.

    I think they forgot the '.'

  5. Re:physical location by mordors9 · · Score: 4, Funny

    C'mon, why do you think we have children. It's to load the DVD/CD players for us.... You didn't really think we didn't know how to set the clock did you? HAHAHA

  6. sounds expensive is right... by Khyron · · Score: 2, Funny

    used XBOX game console, $120.
    used game with software exploit, $5.
    recent build of XMBC, free.

    flawlessly playing every codec you've ever heard of and most ones you haven't?

    priceless.

    some people have a lot of money to burn... ...for the rest of us, there are inexpensive gaming consoles which are actually just PC's with component video and 5.1 digital audio waiting to run some powerful open source software. :)

  7. Is it on Pimp My Ride? by gelfling · · Score: 2, Funny

    Because that's about the only practical use I can think of for a midrange performance PC that costs about $3000.00. Can I get it in platinum with spinner rims, neon tubes and a waterfall?

  8. I'm a FAN! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm a fan of the Fanless Media Center Box. Does that still make it fanless? --oh get over it, someone had to type it!

  9. i built myself a quiet computer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    i called it the STFU-2000

  10. Re:physical location by rainman_bc · · Score: 3, Funny

    Okay, that was pretty funny dude...

    In my childhood, I WAS the remote control. We had a budget dial TV.

    Later, that TV was enhanced with an act of knob-wiggling. Apparantly I was the only one that could get the knob centered to get a signal.

    lol I think my parents really knew how to make it work, but they were enjoying having a remote control - granted sometimes it wasn't responsive as others, so it needed a kick in the pants or two lol!

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  11. Re:pocket players? by Viceice · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... and then, the battery died.

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    Sometimes I wish I was a plumber, then I'd know how to deal with other people's shit.