I personally think it's a good design. I dig the fact that the drives just 'snap-in' as opposed to requiring screws. However, I do find it funny that the site never shows what'll happen if you quickly throw the case-door open. I have a feeling all of the IDE cables would be ripped out of their sockets. Fun!
Unfortunately, it's not a matter of putting an MPEG encoder in the unit, it's about the cost of putting an analog tuner in the box. Analog tuners are quite pricey in the realm of 'parts overhead'. At least that's what a friend who works there claims.
Apple has a quick time player for windows, why doesnt it have one for linux ? Adobe PDFs - why doesnt it have a reader for linux ? Macromedia only recently release a buggy flash player (still in beta) for linux that cant run most of the stuff i could find online.
Need to play QuickTime? Use MPlayer.
Need to view PDFs? Use xpdf.
Can't view Flash? Something's wrong with your setup, because Flash works perfectly on my RedHat 8.0 machine.
Seriously... it took me less time to setup my RedHat box than it did to setup my old WinXP machine. With RedHat, most everything was already installed. An MP3/OGG player, movie player, CD ripper, CD burner, image editor, scanner interface, digital camera interface, AIM client, Mozilla, etc. It took me two minutes to get my dual monitor setup going at a nice resolution.
There's no excuse for complaining with the latest distros. They've really come a long way.
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I personally think it's a good design. I dig the fact that the drives just 'snap-in' as opposed to requiring screws. However, I do find it funny that the site never shows what'll happen if you quickly throw the case-door open. I have a feeling all of the IDE cables would be ripped out of their sockets. Fun!
Unfortunately, it's not a matter of putting an MPEG encoder in the unit, it's about the cost of putting an analog tuner in the box. Analog tuners are quite pricey in the realm of 'parts overhead'. At least that's what a friend who works there claims.
Need to play QuickTime? Use MPlayer.
Need to view PDFs? Use xpdf.
Can't view Flash? Something's wrong with your setup, because Flash works perfectly on my RedHat 8.0 machine.
Seriously... it took me less time to setup my RedHat box than it did to setup my old WinXP machine. With RedHat, most everything was already installed. An MP3/OGG player, movie player, CD ripper, CD burner, image editor, scanner interface, digital camera interface, AIM client, Mozilla, etc. It took me two minutes to get my dual monitor setup going at a nice resolution.
There's no excuse for complaining with the latest distros. They've really come a long way.