NCASE M1 - they're taking orders!

[CZroe]

For that you only need one optical drive in the household. Also, if new disks are not being ripped constantly, it might be fine to just have an external drive you plug in when you need to rip a disk. Ripping the existing collection is a one-time thing so for that it hardly matters whether the drive is internal.

I know I barely use ODDs anymore.

And you don't think that one optical drive in the household might belong in the HTPC more than any other? I don't know about you, but when my guests bring a Redbox movie over to watch together they aren't going to wait for some other computer to rip, encode, and transfer the movie. Half the point of an HTPC is to do the duty of many other devices so having an inferior stand-alone BD player is no good for me.

 

[andg]

The future for all builds is ITX with no optical, not just HTPC. Anyway the optical is hidden away really well on this case, and there are no 5" front bays, so this is very close to what I would ideally build my future gaming system in.

 

[Skott]

Just a FYI

'Wahaha360: Extra M1s will be sold on our website on March 1, 2014 at 10AM EST.'





No info yet on how many. It is a limited amount. They had ordered extras just in case and these are them.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

I might try to get one. I passed on my reserved one after contributing to the kickstarter because I was short on funds.