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Best Buy's ConnectedLife One-Ups Geek Squad

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the home-in-a-box dept.

Retail writes "Best Buy is going to sell a packaged solution of Media Center plus home automation. Literally, it's a package — a box. A customer walks into a Best Buy store, delights in the demo, buys the package, and waits for its arrival in a big box about four-foot square. The package costs $15,000. For that you get a Media Center PC, Lifeware automation software from Exceptional Innovation, an Xbox 360, IP surveillance cameras, automated light switches, a thermostat and installation. It's a complicated business model, called ConnectedLife.Home, and it's bound to pit the new group against other Best Buy factions like Geek Squad."

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  1. weeeeeeee by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i want it i want it i want it fp?

  2. Fuck 15k by Cybert4 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I want to become a powerful and intelligent planet. That'll be more like, uh, 15 trillion dollars. Plus you get to kill everyone else afterwards. W00T! Unicron baby! Jupiter brain, baby! F all you small thinkers.