 This is easily the most impressive Media Center PC I’ve seen from a size perspective, so it seems that Viiv isn’t pure hype after all! Very cool stuff. The review is a bit light on details, but has a bunch of great photos that show every aspect of this wee little beastie.
To fully round out the Viiv spec, the unit has instant on, instant off capability, and yet goes for a mere $1400, unless you opt for a DTV tuner or want to bump the processor speed. So if all that Viiv hullabaloo was necessary for us to see well designed media PCs like this one, we say it was well worth it.
 We were plenty impressed with the m5e WMCE PC from Blueado we spied the other day, but the new µDMS P60 from Hi-Grade does about every mini PC one better, and it’s a Viiv machine to boot. The unit is based on a 1.6GHz Core Duo processor, which (mostly) accounts for the skimpy size, but they still manage to pack in a 80GB 2.5-inch HDD, DVD burner, analog TV tuner, WiFi, Bluetooth, 56k modem, gigabit Ethernet, DVI, S-Video, and a memory card reader just for good measure. There is an infrared keyboard with integrated trackball included, but it requires an external infrared dongle to work, throwing off Hi-Grade’s otherwise all-inclusive “cram it in” policy.
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