Jason Dunn
08-25-2004, 07:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www6.tomshardware.com/howto/20040804/index.html' target='_blank'>http://www6.tomshardware.com/howto/20040804/index.html</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Consumers increasingly want a second PC or want to put a PC in the living room. There is still a great deal of hesitation because many people still don't know whether a barebone (also known as mini-PC) can replace a PC, a DVD player and/or a video recorder. The answer is clearly yes. Correctly configured, one single barebone does all these tasks - with panache..."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/barebones.jpg" /><br /><br />Ah, how I love the little computers. :D This is a great round-up of the top contenders in this space, and I was pleased to see <a href="http://www6.tomshardware.com/howto/20040804/barebones-38.html">how quiet the SB81P is</a> in comparison to all the others on the market (I have my eye on this unit). What really blew me away though is that the SB81P is almost as quiet as the whispering ST62K, which has an external power supply and only one fan.