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While desktop and notebook PCs remain Hi-Grade’s staple diet, Media Center PCs haven’t escaped its attention.
Download heaven
The DMSII has been fitted out with a generous 250GB hard disk for all your ‘downloads’ (legal, of course), dual analogue TV tuners so you can watch and record simultaneously, and a dual layer DVD drive to take entirely unfair advantage of high-capacity recordable discs.
A limp wristed dandy
There’s the all important Intel Pentium 4 processor and a host of audio outputs to play around with.
Let’s face it, the Hi-Grade has all the aesthetic appeal of Jarvis Cocker in a tweed catsuit. Build quality isn’t great, including the rickety loading drawer. However, picture performance is better under scrutiny, apart from some on-screen noise and a touch of image instability. Sound quality is among the best of the bunch, as tunes are spat out with precision, punch and other words that begin with P.
Tech Specs
- Dimensions
- 395 (L) x 430 (W) x 100 (H)
- DVI
- Yes
- Graphics card
- nVidia Geforce 6600 with 128 Mbyte DDR video RAM
- Hard drive storage
- 250GB Hard Drive SATA
- Operating system
- Genuine Windows® XP Media Center Edition
- Processor
- Intel Pentium 4 524 3.06GHz 533FSB 1Mb cache
- RAM
- 512MB memory
- Screen size
- No monitor
- USB
- Two
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