lol Cabinets? Cabinets in the living room is a very old school concept. <div>imagine a PC taking up the space occupied by an old school VCR.<br><div>Anyway.. if you are worried about a PC not fitting in &quot;cabinets&quot; checkout PC form factors - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_form_factor">HERE</a> then <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_form_factor">check these out </a></div>

<div>Have you seen one that fits inside cabinets?</div><div><br></div><div>If we are to talk about Bluetooth, we need to be on the same wavelength.</div><div>The BT moodyness you claim is a result of either using ancient first gen bt hardware</div>

<div>or working with  OSes that have an incomplete Bluetooth Protocol Stacks such as the one that MS and some other vendors provide for windows.</div><div>Trust me on this...i&#39;ve been working on my own BT HID Library for the previously mentioned app for some time ...hence my above recommendation on being on the same wavelength before further discussion on this.</div>

<div><br><div><br></div><div>OS sleep? I doubt you use this feature frequently. If you did, you wouldn&#39;t have highlighted it as a problem.</div><div>Well i use it often on my laptop and I&#39;ve just booted into my Ubuntu installation after 3 weeks of &quot;sleep-&gt;power-&gt;sleep&quot; cycles on FC15. I could&#39;av gone on as long as necessary without any problems. </div>

<div>In addition to that, there would be no harm in rebooting a HT PC for maintenance once in a while.</div><div><br></div><div>Power consumption lol. For this one i will start by asking...do you have a PC in your household? Have you thrown it away because it consumes too much power? </div>

<div>According to you there is only one PC type - the kienyeji clone that sucks 450 watts/hr from KPLC.</div><div>Did you know that consumption depends on the components that constitute the machine? HDD size &amp; rpm, chipset, ram type etc.</div>

<div>Look at the power consumption specs of the first gen Mac Mini - a fully fledged ultra low power x86 PC.</div><div>Another good ultra low power example is the Nintendo Wii - a PPC Arch low power marvel that chugs along at 19W playing the heaviest of its titles.</div>

<div><br></div><div>Conclusion</div><div>As time goes by, beneficial technological changes become too difficult for previous generation to adapt to.</div><div>Pilots of the F-4s in Nam cannot relate to the advancements in F-22 and a large majority of them still prefer their F-4s.</div>

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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/12/5 aki <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:aki275@gmail.com">aki275@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">

@James, inline below: :-))<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 11:44 PM, James Nzomo <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:kazikubwa@gmail.com" target="_blank">kazikubwa@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

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@Aki<div>Noisy fan? You can hear a pin drop with a Branded Desktop running in the same room.</div><div>If you need to go the clone way, you can get noiseless fans here in 254.</div><div>And anyway with a Home Theater Playing loud, what fan noise will you hear?</div>




<div> </div></blockquote><div> </div></div><div>What are the physical dimensions of the PC you refer to, and will the unit fit into a TV stand cabinet that does not require special ventilations? </div><div class="im"><div>

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<div></div><div>No remote controll for a PC??? Now you are letting me down.</div><div>Wireless keyboards &amp; touchpad combo?, Bluetooth remote control apps that can run on most mobile devices from j2me to Tablets?? They even reserve keys for various media players and media centers.</div>


<div> </div></blockquote><div> </div></div><div>Bluetooth works fine when it does, but its pretty moody technology. You and i can do the details, tell 90% of the population out there to sync bluetooth and they will ask you many questions. </div>

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<div>Ai bwana. I&#39;m even working on an app to turn a phone into a handy laptop numpad. </div><div>And for the heck of it you can even control a pc via VNC using symbian, android, IOs, winmobile and Phone 7.</div><div>



<br></div></blockquote><div> </div></div><div>Nice. :-)</div><div class="im"><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid" class="gmail_quote">


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</div><div>Boot options or Boot time?</div><div>Boot options... the more the better..... Spoilt for choice!!</div><div>Did you know that modern OSes &amp; Hardware feature sleep functionality? Power on in a second..Sleep in about the same time depending on the amount of ram in use.</div>




<div><br></div></blockquote><div> </div></div><div>No computer OS can sleep indefinately, hardware chips are much more stable and leaner. And sleep mode on any computer is far from stable or dependable. </div><div class="im">

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 </div><div> </div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid" class="gmail_quote"><div></div><div>Power consumption...if you are worried about this then get rid of every PC (and every HD &amp; HT device ) in your house and live in the 1970s.<br clear="all">


<font><font><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div></font></font></div></blockquote><div> </div></div><div>What is the power consumption of the PC you refer to? 250watts to 350watts? That is a lot of power use for simple functionality. All HTs, due to their hardware design are green system and will only draw more wattage as you increase the outputs. A total HT will consume much less.</div>


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