All Posts Tagged With: "HTPC"
Building A Media Center PC
It’s been a while since I’ve written a post and I haven’t even had the time to keep up with my feeds. I did however find the time over the weekend to build a new Media Center PC. I managed to put the itself PC together fairly quickly, without too many cuts on [...]
9Apr2008 | Everton | 4 comments | Continued
New PC And Media Center Spec
I pulled forward yesterday building a new media center, because my main PC died. I’m moving into a new flat soon with a bigger ‘office’ that I’m also going to use a games room, hence the need for a second media center PC to go with my current media center PC in the front room.
24Mar2008 | Everton | 3 comments | Continued
Now My Main PC Has Died As Well!
I’m really not having a good time with my PCs at the moment. Last week my Windows Home Server died, taking with it a lot of my music and photos. Now my main PC has died and won’t boot into Windows. I don’t know why all my bits and bobs are all [...]
23Mar2008 | Everton | 15 comments | Continued
XBMC Coming On OS X And Linux. Plus, I Need Advice With New PC Spec
I’m a big fan of XMBC, the great open source media center for Xboxs. But, I stopped using it over the last 12 months because my needs had out-stripped the capabilities of the Xbox, which can’t support native HD content. Because of this, I now use PCs running Windows Vista Media Center [...]
11Feb2008 | Everton | 1 comment | Continued
PCMark Vantage For Vista Coming Soon
I’m not a PC gamer, but I do like to know how fast my computers are. A good test of how fast a PC is has always been the various PCMark tests, but unfortunately these haven’t worked with Windows Vista.
This will be fixed shortly with the launch of PCMark Vantage, a new set of [...]
