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Story: No end of choice: Media Center's hidden bonus

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One is getting quite tired of extraordinarily similar products packaged under different names in order to split a naive market and encourage purchase replication and reduced utility of owned systems, most of which are severely underutilised as they stand. Waste encouraging more waste in order to promote...God knows what.

Kind of reminds me of the time when vendors were selling P3 processors as necessary for the Internet, while conveniently forgetting to tell customers about the relationship between the amount of data a processor sucks in and deals with per unit time and the amount of data delivered over 56k narrowband lines.

One wonders what extraordinarily uncommon setup -CPU, Memory, Disks, etc, make up this so called new media system. One wonders what un-ubiquitously present new ports, or what new type of hardware, the new systems bring to market.

This is getting annoying now. The promotion of inefficiency and technological gluttony -if I may say this. The only bonus on offer is to Microsoft's already deep pockets, the only real choice is the increased choices for a declared monopoly. As they say - "A fool and his money are soon parted."

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