In this chapter
•
Overview of Media Center hardware fea-
tures and options
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Desktop and tower-style Media Center
designs
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Compact and SFF Media Center systems
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Portable Media Center PCs
•
Gateway’s “all-in-one” Media Center sys-
tem
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External tuners and “beanbags”
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Hardware Features and
Options for Media
Center PCs
One of the features that makes Microsoft’s Windows XP Media Center
Edition Software unique is that it’s among the very few Microsoft prod-
ucts that can’t be purchased by themselves. You must buy the operat-
ing system as part of a configured Media Center PC—or you can’t have
it at all.
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