Well, indeed you can upgrade the GPU, but the GeForce 8200 is hardly inadequate for a TVPC, its fully blu ray capable, in fact its relatively hard to find any kind of *downloaded* video file that it can't play and offload from the CPU. Its really only unoptimized stuff (like Adobe flash) where the CPU goes to work.

I'm from Neuros and as others have suggested, we'd LOVE to use an atom solution. The issue, as fuzzyfuzzyfungus suggested is that we can't anticipate what users will want to use the machine for, and sadly much of that is not optimized. flash 10.1 did not completely solve this problem (and its not available in 64bit yet anyway). Further, flash isn't the only inefficient application out there, and the entire point of our box is flexibility, and that you can run virtually any application you want without hassle. I would love to do what you are doing and go with an atom solution, it would save us money and hassle, and be more efficient. Its very close, but just not quiet there for what we're trying to do just yet. No one will be happier when that day comes.

I'm from Neuros (to get that out of the way) You shouldn't lump ball bearings in with fluid bearings. Fluid bearings combined the long life of ball bearings are are practically silent. But you are right about going big and slow. That's why the product uses a 120mm fan that's speed controlled, in typical use its under 1000 rpm and pretty much dead silent.

Agreed, may flash die the miserable death that is so long overdue.

That's been my experience too, that the dB specs are meaningless because they are so filled with lies. This device is about as quiet as any fanned system gets and in any normal ambient environment you can't tell if its off or on from 3 feet away. You'd all but need to be in a sound proof room to hear it from 6 feet away.

Here's a review of the device with pictures, etc: http://www.geardiary.com/2010/04/10/review-neuros-link/

A 2.8GHz single core is a pretty careful choice. It's a pretty good balance that supports a wide range of content, remember not everything supports multiple cores well (or hardware acceleration for example). This processor does everything up to 1080p24 (what you see on apple.com for example) and also supports flash video, etc. On one hand, there's a great deal of discussion of ION or other graphics centric solutions, which are great when that hardware matches *exactly* what you want to playback, but then try something not optimized (flash for example) and you are very limited. On the other side, there are more powerful CPUs, but the expense (and cooling requirements-noise go up) and in most applications you won't see one lick of improvement, I know because we tested a lot of them before settling on this one.