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You probably want to use wires rather than wireless, which could be a issue, depending on your particular situation.

You can go wireless these days, too. Just get an AppleTV and an Airport Extreme (which now has gigabit ethernet (which they put in exactly two days after the return of my own Airport was invalid - grrr)). 802.11n is really fast.

My question is: why go to the trouble of finding a slim case for a standard ATX motherboard? Are you, for some reason, building this system around a motherboard you already have? Besides, if you do find a slim ATX case, it'll probably take half-height cards, so make sure you think about that. Oh, and a good cooling solution, because you won't be fitting any Zalman heatsinks in a slim case.

If you really want the HTC box to be in your living room, I'd say go with a barebones media center PC and build from there. Shuttle has a few different slim barebones systems, starting at around $360.

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ps- of course, an AppleTV and Airport Extreme together might cost you as much as some cheap HTPC's themselves.


Edited by Dignan (17/08/2007 18:26)
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