Behold, the Guts of the Boxee Box

[Jason Dunn]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Boxee-Box-Teardown/4109/1' target='_blank'>http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Boxe...Teardown/4109/1</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"The Boxee Box is a cubist deviation from the traditionally rectangular set-top box. The oddly-shaped form factor forced D-Link to make the internals equally odd. But that also made it super fun to take apart!"</em></p><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/dht/auto/1289503902.usr1.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #d2d2bb;" /></p><p>iFixit has a cool teardown of the Boxee Box - check out that heatsink! That's one crazy-huge heatsink for such a small device...</p><p>My Boxee Box is on it's way to me now - I can't wait! The <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/10/live-from-the-boxee-box-launch-event/" target="_blank">new UI</a> looks pretty slick.</p>

[ptyork]

Just knowing it needs that level of passive cooling makes me think it must be a big step up from the Apple TV and most of the current round of small streamers. I guess that's the difference between 720 and 1080 output. Well, and perhaps the difference between Intel and ARM. Looking forward to your full review.