AcerPower 1000 - Good BTV Link?

[Bloggator]

I just saw this machine at Circuit City and it's really sexy. It's black and tiny and it would blend in as well as a DVD player. It's smaller than the slimline HP machines and only $489!

Plus, it's got gigabit LAN, a 250GB HD, 8 USB 2.0 ports, DVD Superdrive, built-in 802.11g, an Athlon 3800+ processor and DVI out!

I think this may be the perfect BTV link machine for my den. I'd probably add another 512K memory to bring it up to 1GB. Plug in the ethernet and start enjoying that sweet, sweet HD from my BTV server.

My only question is whether the built in nVIDIA GeForce™ 6150 graphics processor could drive my 26" HDTV LCD monitor. There are no PCI slots, so this is the only dealbreaker I can see.

(Just a note to those on the forum who are much more technically-inclined than I am. I'm sure I *could* build a better box for less money, but that's not something I have the time or talent to do. I'm looking for something prebuilt that I can use immediately.)

Here it is: http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/AcerP...Detail.do#tabs

Jeff

[tscales]

6150 might be on the borderline, but it should work. Good looking little machine.

I'm partial to the Dell Optiplex GX620. I pick'em up cheap off ebay. Very small and quiet. I've never paid more than $300.

http://www.scalesfamily.com/images/gx620.jpg