AndyC said:Shining Arcanine said:*snip*Media Center doesn't require a TV tuner, though obviously it's quite useful if you want the full functionality. It's also not written in .NET (hence requiring x86) and runs on Windows (hence requiring x86) and, again, the lack of sufficient local disk would make it a bit useless even if you used one of the Linux based Media Center clones.
I'm not sure I buy the composability argument either, the only reason to adopt a "plug" form factor is to have a very discrete device, not to have a tangle of wires and bits hanging off. It's just self defeating. It probably wouldn't have required much more effort to add a user-servicable 2.5" hard drive bay or SSD slot and then it would be a much more attractive device.
Some people I know uses XBMC and MythTV over NFS, SMB and tunneled SSH. Works great so local disk is not required.
