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After getting initial configuration hassles out of the way, this system has been rock solid, working day in and day out with no hangs or slowdowns. Those two red X's in the bottom row aren't Vista's fault. Both are unexpected shutdowns - one caused by accidentally hitting the switch on a power strip, the other caused by a brief local blackout. Without them, the Reliability Index would be a perfect 10.

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Thanks Ed for a wonderful article. It got me to finally move off my rear end and do something to unify my home thretre system.

Ordered from your parts list: refurbished Dell arrived yesterday- ... (Read the rest)
Posted by: cgrady@... Posted on: 09/01/07 You are currently: a Guest | | Terms of Use
Network Speed?  stephenpace | 08/24/07
Hardwired  Ed BottZDNet Moderator | 08/24/07
I'm ready but AT&T isn't  john.st.lawrence@... | 08/24/07
What a mess  rhon@... | 08/24/07
AppleTV doesn't do enough  Ed BottZDNet Moderator | 08/24/07
Awesome. The same machine that  xuniL_z | 08/24/07
Nice.. i built three  Been_Done_Before | 08/24/07
Dang!  raharrin@... | 08/24/07
Backup  mariom@... | 08/24/07
Backup  NoFlamesPlz | 08/24/07
Actually, I'm using the final code for WHS  Ed BottZDNet Moderator | 08/25/07
Home Theater Installer Opinion  jshields | 08/25/07
CableCard now, DirecTV someday  Ed BottZDNet Moderator | 08/25/07
Check out this vendors  epaval@... | 08/27/07
MCE Add-Ons  jshields | 08/29/07
Sound Blaster card wrong size  cgrady@... | 09/01/07

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