News - MESH launches new line of "CUTE" full-HD HTPCs

[HEXUS]

Dual-core processor, Radeon HD graphics, dual TV tuner and a Blu-ray drive in a system costing less than £400.

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[chuckskull]

By cute did you mean ghastly?

Red, blue and yellow on the front panel? Someone at Mesh needs to google "colour wheel"

[simonw]

The case appears to be the CFI A8989.

[Shooty*]

OR people could follow the excellent self-build HTPC guide that that Shooty* fellow has posted on the forum somewhere....

http://forums.hexus.net/hexus-hardwa...ch-happen.html

320gb... pah! That would barely contain my Star Trek avi collection!

Although I have now removed my two 1tb drives and networked the whole thing to a server...

Sometimes, I really feel like Manfred Macx. And that scares me.

[GaryRW]

The case appears to be the CFI A8989.

£33 inc VAT and including PSU! Cheaper than any other HTPC cases I've considered by some margin. Anybody got any experience of this case, and more importantly, that PSU??

EDIT: & if any Hexus staff are reading this, how about a roundup of HTPC cases? There must be more and more people looking into building these, and they're obviously a different market to most cases.

(goes away to look at the other cases on linitx.com...)

[scaryjim]

£33 inc VAT and including PSU! Cheaper than any other HTPC cases I've considered by some margin. Anybody got any experience of this case, and more importantly, that PSU??

It's a lovely case, certainly, but you have to factor in the premium you'll pay for mini-itx components to go with it.

There's a couple of good reviews (I was looking at it myself as a possible case to mod for mini-itx watercooling) if you google the case details...

[Ciber]

Would like to see a hexus review! I'd be concerned about the noise levels with such a cheap case and it does look a bit tacky TBH. Nice to see HTPCs getting cheaper even though I don't think I would want that particular one under my TV. Sticking with my Humax PVR and old DVD player for the time being.