Buying a Media Center PC
Friday, February 10, 2006 at 10:03AM by Charlie O'Donnell Here's where the "offer inbox", opt-in advertising, comparison shopping, and recommendations all need to converge:
I am an in-market Media PC buyer. I want to buy a computer that is fast enough to do video cutting, splicing, etc.... plug into my TV, VCR, DVD, etc... power my wifi music system, etc. I probably want to spend around $2000. Storage is very important to me, but I don't think I need a whole terrabyte.
I will not be gaming...screen res has to be good, but doesn't have to be ridiculously cutting edge.
I want to burn DVDs and CDs...speed not that important as long as it doesn't take 4 days to burn my home videos to DVD.
So... here's the question. Where do I go to put the HP, Dell, Gateway, Sony, etc. etc. offerings all next to each other and compare them side by side, feature for feature, and also get user feedback as well?
Is there a good tool out there for this? I'd literally just like to see columns and rows of features that I can sort and add/subtract from to get updated pricing.
Seems like this should be out there, but I don't think it is.
If it isn't, user feedback is much appreciated on this post.
Reader Comments (3)
I didn't find any sites that do what you want exactly. After I figured out some key req's I used shopping.com and the like to find models to further investigate.
I ended up debating between Toshiba & Sony. I went with a Sony because I got a good deal from Best Buy (and it looked cool). You may want something a little more media centric & high-powered, so I'd suggest looking at Toshiba's Qosmio line.
Sounds like an opportunity.
Question is - is there a way to make money setting it up. It would be interesting to try.
My curiosity, and honest question, is why Media center in stead of a media router like the one that dlink has:http://www.dlink.com/products/?sec=1&pid=318