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Home entertainment continues to be a fast growing trend in the computer usage market. Smaller, faster and quieter are all characteristics that users demand from their HTPC, but not ones that naturally go hand-in-hand. Arctic aim to care for the needs of home entertainment enthusiasts with their slim and elegant MC101.
On paper, the MC101 is a powerful home entertainment system. It packs an AMD Trinity A10 – 4600M, HD 7660G, 8GB of memory and 1TB hard drive into a chassis which is no thicker than a SD card. Built to operate silently with a low power usage, Arctic's intelligent fan speed settings should allow media-lovers to enjoy their films and TV shows without disturbance. A DVB-T (HD)/ ATSC TV tuner and front panel infra-red receiver outline the system's HTPC intentions.
Arctic's passive MC001-BD earned our KitGuru ‘Worth Buying' award. Can its more powerful, $749.00 sibling impress us as much?
Specifications:
Processor: AMD Trinity A10 – 4600M (2.3GHz)
Chipset: A70M (Hudson M3)
Memory: 8GB (2x 4GB) DDR3 1600MHz
Graphics: AMD HD 7660G (512MB)
Hard Disk Drive: 1TB Western Digital Scorpio Blue (2.5″)
Optical Drive: None
TV Tuner: DVB-T / ATSC
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
excellent looking media center, great styling. bit costly as you say though.
You pay for the chassis design really, but Id rather build my own media center with the latest silverstone chassis. Better airflow, even if is a bit bigger.
Still nice idea from ARCTIC, although ive concerns over their pricing lately, their GPU coolers are very expensive too.
No bluray optical drive for this pricing? Are they kidding. wow thats well over the price I would expect for that hardware specification.
Bluray can be added with usb based external Bluray drive.
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