HP has a new model of their Media Center PC line that now includes a built in dock for an iPod on the top of the tower. They have also moved away from the black coloring of the older Media Center units to a new silver color. Not the best looking desktop in the world but they do include the iPod dock which I think is a great idea for a media PC. Also, the DVD burner is one of those LightScribe drives.
Bad things about it include an on-board graphics chip. Why would anyone want a media center with this kind of graphics?? Even the old ones have a regular AGP graphics card and I believe the last models moved to PCIExpress. (Mine is 2 years old and has a 128mb GeForce 4 which I think would be better than a 64mb on-board, right??)
They also finally got rid of the floppy drive. I think this is one of the first HPs to do that as well.
Here's a few links:
Yahoo News Article
CompUSA Product Page (Has the best picture I could find of the thing)
HP Product Page
Bad things about it include an on-board graphics chip. Why would anyone want a media center with this kind of graphics?? Even the old ones have a regular AGP graphics card and I believe the last models moved to PCIExpress. (Mine is 2 years old and has a 128mb GeForce 4 which I think would be better than a 64mb on-board, right??)
They also finally got rid of the floppy drive. I think this is one of the first HPs to do that as well.
Here's a few links:
Yahoo News Article
CompUSA Product Page (Has the best picture I could find of the thing)
HP Product Page
