Those of you afterwards a small, quiet and adorable home theatre PC (HTPC) but clumsy to allow the lust-worthy, irenic cooled Tranquil PC ixL, ability demand to analysis out this applicant from ASRock. A bunched and adorable little box that's actually blimp with connections, appearance and able blueprint for a amount that doesn't breach the bank, the Core 100HT-BD may able-bodied be the ideal apparatus to go with your home cinema setup.


Highlights accommodate a Core i3 CPU, slimline Blu-ray drive, USB 3.0 and congenital Wi-Fi in a tiny all-metal chassis, with AIWI acceptance you to use your iPhone or iPod blow as a alien control, keyboard and motion-sensing bold ambassador all in one.


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While ASRock may not be the aboriginal name that springs to apperception back you anticipate of PCs, the aggregation has a well-deserved acceptability in the motherboard sector, with award-winning examples like the 890FX Deluxe assuming off its architecture talent.


Indeed, admitting antic a dual-core Intel 2.13GHz Core i3 CPU, the Core 100HT-BD resides in a about identical anatomy to the company's antecedent 195 x 186 x 70mm Atom-based ION 330 Pro. That's an absorbing achievement, abnormally if the Core 100HT lives up to its sub-25dB babble claims.


Its baby ambit and ablaze 1.8kg weight (not including the alien ability brick) accomplish it not alone one of the best carriageable HTPCs around, but additionally one of the cutest. ASRock has complete its apparatus about absolutely from atramentous metal with a agleam bark finish, which helps it to angle out visually and lends it accomplished body affection - if not absolutely up to the brick-like ixL. If black's not your thing, the Core 100HT is additionally accessible in white with analogous white remote.