Best Newegg ION Combo I Have Seen

FishOil Wrote:It still needs RAM right?

IMO the ZOTAC HDND01 would be a better deal in regard to bang for the buck. $239 Free Shipping Includes 160GB hard drive and 2GB DDR2 memory.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...6856173001

It's $280 now..... This one sounds pretty good too. Wonder how good it is.

Beer40oz Wrote:It's $280 now..... This one sounds pretty good too. Wonder how good it is.

Arrived and all setup. Because I now have 2 of them its kinda nice to make a cloned backup and be able to use it on either one.

The first one has been excellent for almost a year now with just XBMC on it.

Suspend and resume from remote work with a bit of tweaking. Wireless was replaced with an tiny external USB (ZOTAC wireless sucks). Plays ANYTHING I give it. ANYTHING!

I didnt bother setting up navigation sounds on this one because to tell you the truth it just gets on my nerves after a while with all the ping, pong, swish, woot. Also Navigation volume does not track Movie volume(XBMC bug IMO).

FishOil Wrote:Arrived and all setup. Because I now have 2 of them its kinda nice to make a cloned backup and be able to use it on either one.

The first one has been excellent for almost a year now with just XBMC on it.

Suspend and resume from remote work with a bit of tweaking. Wireless was replaced with an tiny external USB (ZOTAC wireless sucks). Plays ANYTHING I give it. ANYTHING!

I didnt bother setting up navigation sounds on this one because to tell you the truth it just gets on my nerves after a while with all the ping, pong, swish, woot. Also Navigation volume does not track Movie volume(XBMC bug IMO).

I am about to pull the trigger on a zotac mag and plan on running a minimal ubuntu/xmbc install with (initially an external mybook drive followed by a synology nas).

Could you elaborate on suspend and resume issues? What remotes/wireless keyboard mouse did you purchase? I figure I will need both a remote and a keyboard/mouse combo.