I’ve been looking at getting a small PC to run the new big TV and basically take care of the media stuff. The big system does a very good job of driving the TV, but me being me another PC would be better.
I looked at a few options and landed upon the AOpen products, and then found the new GP7A-HD which is currently only available in Japan, and maybe a few other counries now.
There is a very new product and not alot of info is available about it so I thought I would share my experience so far.
The flashy promostuff can be found here on the global AOpen site.
And the different model specs are here:
Finding the actual parts in Tokyo proved to be alot more complex that I expected. Even Akihabara failed me here! The ever increasing ordering online is slowly killing off Akihabara.
I printed out the shopping list of parts (from the AOpen site) which proved to a be damn good idea. The japanese site gave a list of shops that stocked the unit. One was Bic Camera in Ginza which is just up the train line from me so confidence was high.