I recently bought a Fujitsu Siemens Scaleo EV as an HTPC. The reason for this post is to log my progress with the setup of this machine.
I’ve had an HTPC for a while now that I custom built over a long period. I ran BeyondTV very successfully on this machine for use as a PVR.
My biggest concern lately with this machine was the reliability (it would reboot and crash every so often) and the fact that no matter which front end I tried I couldn’t get a reliable and easy way of playing back music.
The Scaleo comes with Microsoft Windows Media Center Edition so hopefully this would solve the issue around the music playback using a remote.
Some of the biggest reasons I bought the machine:
- Reliability of my old HTPC was questionable
- Wanted to try MCE
- Wanted a quiet HTPC (the old HTPC was basically a normal desktop modded to perform the HTPC functions)
- The keyboard that came with this machine was awesome (integrated touchpad)
- The MCE remote and MCE’s reaction to the remote is absolutely fantastic.
Hopefully I won’t regret the purchase, but this blog will tell the story.
January 29, 2007 at 5:48 pm |
Hello!
Did you bought the Scaleo EV? I plan to buy same htpc, but I hesitating now. Any experience? How much the price?
Joc
February 8, 2007 at 5:48 pm |
Yes I did by the Scaleo EV. I’ve had a very good experience with the PC so far. My only negative feedback is that it has very limited connections. I have for example a touch screen which I connected to my previous PC, but there is not enough connections on the new PC to connect the touch screen. The other problem I’ve had is that when the PC comes out of “standby” or “instant off” the remote sometimes doesn’t work and I have to restart.
The PC fits in very nicely with the other AV equipment in my TV room.
Where do you live? I stay in South Africa and I’m sure if you live overseas you’ll be able to find better prices and more places to buy.
March 16, 2007 at 5:55 pm |
Hello
Yeah got a scaleo Ev as well. The version with the core 2 6400 cpu and an asusTek dual tuner. Thats one tv card which is able to view either 2 x dvt or 2 x analouge tv. But the card does not work well when recording two channels at once the one channel is completely ruined by noise effects and odd white lines! The machine runs hot as well.
I regret buying this machine.