RE: [ukha_d] Media Centre PC for <£300

["Paul Gordon" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes it has embedded 10/100 Realtek NIC on board.

>From memory, it has a standard set of 3 x 3.5mm jack plugs for analogue
5.1=
audio, and I'm 99% sure there is an optical SPDIF out too, - but I can't r=
emember if the optical out is on the back, the front, or both... (I'm sure
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I can remember seeing an optical out on the front behind the flap, - but I
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can't remember if this is duplicated round the back or not...)

A full description of the machine can be found here:

http://tinyurl.com/9hn9w

HTH

Paul G.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> John Andrews
> Sent: 27 August 2005 17:25
> To: UKHA_D Group
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Media Centre PC for <=A3300
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> Paul
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> I'm interested in this PC! Can I ask what type of audio? I.E. coax,
spdif=
,
> and does it support dolby digital?
> You mention a wifi card, does it have network on board too?
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> Thanks in advance (credit card at the ready)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Paul Gordon
> Sent: 27 August 2005 15:41
> To: UKHA_D Group
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Media Centre PC for <=A3300
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> Hi Pete
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> This system is the one my parents bought back in January from PC
World, a=
t
> the then (what I thought was a good) price of =A3599 without a
monitor.
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> It's not a bad machine, - they've had a HDD failure, but that's just
luck
> of
> the draw I think, - and not indicative of anything relating to the
overal=
l
> quality of the kit.
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> At that price, I'd say it's a bit of a B.... B.... Bargain! (TM)
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> It's only got a single analogue TV tuner in it, and IIRC no spare PCI
> slots
> as standard, however, it does have a modem and a WiFi card both taking
up
> a
> PCI slot each, - both of which I've removed from the machine, and if
you
> don't need those devices (and who needs an analogue modem in a desktop
> PC?)
> then you could easily free up those slots and put in a pair of
freeview
> cards...
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> There's a full-size IEEE1394 (Firewire) port on the back, and a
> mini-firewire port on the front and 4 USB2.0 on the rear, and 2 up
front.
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> The whole front panel is a mirrored with proper mirror glass (it has a
> plastic film on it which you should remove for the best appearance).
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> The entire right-hand side (when upright, as in the illustration) is a
> push-to-open flap, behind which resides a memory card reader (there's
no
> FDD
> on this machine), plus the usual array of ports; USB x 2, Firewire x
1,
> and
> a full set of audio ports.
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> The top left part (when upright, as in the illustration) houses the
> optical
> drive, which also has the same mirrored glass fascia (when closed you
> can't
> actually tell it's there), which is a multi-format DVD rewriter (might
be
> dual-layer as well, - I can't actually remember for sure, but I
*think* i=
t
> is...)
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> It's a fairly deep case - not as small as the Maplins book PC's that
were
> popular a couple of years ago, but it is still reasonably small.. (It
was
> the smallest machine that PC World sold at the time...
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> HTH
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> Paul G.
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> > Of White, Peter
> > Sent: 26 August 2005 22:11
> > To: UKHA_D Group
> > Subject: [ukha_d] Media Centre PC for <=A3300
> >
> > With all this chatter about Xbox 360, I was thinking about trying
out
> > Media Centre (and selling the iMac, it just ain't for me!).
> >
> > Does this seem like a good deal, in terms of getting something I
can
> > play with and understand how good (or bad) MC is?
> >
> > http://www.morgancomputers.co.uk/shop/detail.asp?ProductID=3D1954
> > <http://www.morgancomputers.co.uk/shop/detail.asp?ProductID=3D1954>
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> > Pete
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