Zotac HTPC with Ion2, Atom 1.8 2gb Ram , 250Gb and BD Drive at $220 w/Free ship

[BoredSysAdmin]

Zotac ZBOX-ID36BR3D-PLUS Intel Atom D525 CPU 1.8 GHz Dual-Core Next-generation NVIDIA ION w/2GB RAM, 250G HDD Blu-ray All-in-One Mini-PC - Newegg.com

With OpenElec Linux and XBMC it should be able to bitstream HD audio and play 1080p without any issues

 

[Grador]

This is an extremely tempting replacement for my revo. Would be quite nice to have a BDrom drive and hopefully a bit less fan noise. If only I weren't slightly funemployed right now...

 

[Lulimet]

I have an Acer Revo 3700 which has the Atom D525 and nVidia ION 2. No problem with 1080p and HD audio but beware that the atom and ion are not up to the task for netflix streaming. It's very choppy.
As long as you don't do netflix from a web browser then that is a very good deal especially with the BD drive and the USB 3.0 ports included. Actually it's a hell of a deal.

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

with that zotac is out of stock and I doubt it will come back there is a decent alternative, albeit a bit more expensive if you add up memory and storage
ASUS EB1033-B0100 Black Mini / Booksize Barebone System - Newegg.com

4gb of ram is about $30-35 and I guess you could boot from SD card...