AlienWare DHS 2

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AlienWare has released a new HTPC called "DHS 2".

http://www.alienware.com/Images/product_detail_page_images/dhs_2/dhs2_hdr_shot.jpg

http://www.alienware.com/Images/product_detail_page_images/dhs_2/dhs2_enlarge_front.jpg

http://www.alienware.com/Images/product_detail_page_images/dhs_2/dhs2_enlarge_front_bays.jpg http://www.alienware.com/Images/product_detail_page_images/dhs_2/dhs2_enlarge_back.jpg

Comment by Tom's Hardware: Alienware announced the second generation of its DHS Series media center system. The DHS 2 Series comes with Microsoft's Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 and offers the functionality of a DVD recorder, CD recorder, DVR, Tuner and a performance PC. Wrapped in a stylish silver casing, Alienware offers the new Media Center PC... Standard equipment include a Pentium 4 520 processor (3.0 GHz), an ATI Radeon X300 PCI Express graphics card, FM radio and TV tuner card, an 80 GByte harddisk and a DVD drive. The DHS 2 Series also can be ordered with dual standard definition TV tuners that allow two shows to be recorded at once. The DHS 2 Series is available immediately in the North American market. The company said it will launch the new media center system throughout Europe in early 2005.

http://www.alienware.com/product_detail_pages/DHS_2/dhs_2_features.aspx

What do you think of it? :)

[powderkegz]

Interesting (and cool). Stuff like this will definitely be the wave of the future, but I think I'll wait until the components (and cases, perhaps most importantly) become common and I can build one of those myself for 1/3 to 1/6 the price of what Alienware charges ;)

Oh, and I forgot: Alienware's support rivals Dell's in its horribleness :angry:

Peace,
powderkegz

[Atamido]

Originally posted by powderkegz
Oh, and I forgot: Alienware's support rivals Dell's in its horribleness Dell's support is ranked in the upper part of the industry. The sad fact is that everyone has incredibly sucky tech support. I think this is in large part due to the shift of call centers to India. I love calling support, getting someone that you can't understand, that has no idea what they are doing, and then having to call 7 times over the course of a year to get a single DVD-R/RW drive replaced. :( Thank you HP.

[MaXiMuS]

i like it .... (maybe next xmas) :D

[neo75903]

argh ugly.
Expected more from Alienware. :(
Way cheaper if you assemble it yourself :)