Uhm... this is way beyond a HTPC. It's a small form factor gaming pc. They setup not a single thing connected to a HTPC, but rather a gaming PC inside a HTPC form factor case. No HTPC specific software except power dvd, no traditional TV watching, no neflix subscription, not XMBC... What made me chuckle is that they try to sell you $ 50+ sun glasses along with this PC...

Uhm... this is way beyond a HTPC. It's a small form factor gaming pc. They setup not a single thing connected to a HTPC, but rather a gaming PC inside a HTPC form factor case. No HTPC specific software except power dvd, no traditional TV watching, no neflix subscription, not XMBC... What made me chuckle is that they try to sell you $ 50+ sun glasses along with this PC...

It still one in the same Keep in mind HTPC also had MAME emulator games add on for min years as well so in min way it becoming all one boxes.

Uhm... this is way beyond a HTPC. It's a small form factor gaming pc. They setup not a single thing connected to a HTPC, but rather a gaming PC inside a HTPC form factor case. No HTPC specific software except power dvd, no traditional TV watching, no neflix subscription, not XMBC... What made me chuckle is that they try to sell you $ 50+ sun glasses along with this PC...

If you go to their web site, it shows that it supports all those type of apps. hulu, netflix, etc.

Very expensive unless gaming is a must. An Intel NUC or Mac Mini are better choices I guess.

I think this is a little more than a HTPC. "3-WAY NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980s to run any PC game at up to 4K resolutions with buttery smooth framerates that will make all of your console gaming friends jealous!" Cheeky.

If you go to their web site, it shows that it supports all those type of apps. hulu, netflix, etc.

It supports them. But that's nothing special, all PCs with a moderately up to date OS do that. It's not even set up for you to easily use it, so that's just a computer anyway... if I order a htpc for 1000$ I'd expect such things to work without me setting everything up.

It still one in the same Keep in mind HTPC also had MAME emulator games add on for min years as well so in min way it becoming all one boxes.

Sorry, I'm afraid I don't get your point... can you rephrase it? 🙂

Very expensive unless gaming is a must. An Intel NUC or Mac Mini are better choices I guess.

My current htpc runs on my old LGA775 platform and eventually will run on LGA1366 (the righ in my current sig to the right), because I use my old hardware for it. I just recently built an AMD based APU htpc for a friend, and so far it looks to be alright for the purpose of having a media center, internet access, and watching cable TV on the little box 🙂

Hehe, this one is funny. 1. I love how they're comparing it to the Alienware Alpha. That makes me laugh. Despite the base system being just about double the price, but not having a whole lot over it. Memory and the gpu are higher, and the cpu comes at 4.5 ghz oced but uses more power. There's more that I can go on about but won't. Not a whole lot of difference, and can't compare the two. 2. It can run Netflix and Hulu, nice. But so can every other Windows 8 system! They're in the Windows store! 3. It does have HTPC features such as DVD playback, and HDMI inputs. But you have to pay damn near $250 for the combo. The actual series looks nice, but over price and over specced for being considered an HTPC.

My current htpc runs on my old LGA775 platform and eventually will run on LGA1366 (the righ in my current sig to the right), because I use my old hardware for it. I just recently built an AMD based APU htpc for a friend, and so far it looks to be alright for the purpose of having a media center, internet access, and watching cable TV on the little box

I just replaced my old Athlon X3 box with a 7850k build. =] Had to use microatx for overclocking, but for 720p-1080p videos, games, and XBMC it's not bad at all.

To me this is better than the Alienware system that Dell released that comes with a wireless 360 controller because of the desktop graphics cards idea which means upgradeable. I agree that this is overkill for a HTPC because right now I am using an old HP Dc5800 with a Pentium Dual Core 2.60ghz 8gb of ddr2 RAM and a Geforce GT 610 1gb graphics card for an HTPC running Windows 7 pro 64bit and that is more than enough for a 720p-1080p HTPC.