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Smooth, I really don't understand how AMD thinks they can be competitive with their Liiv platform. Basically, they are suggesting a usage model that - instead of consolidating your living room into a Digital Home PC - they want you to add yet *another* box that does basically the same thing as your other components.

Uhh, excuse me, but consumers don't want to *add* hardware to their living room. They want to *consolidate* hardware into a single device, or at least fewer devices.

Plus, Liiv has not mentioned anything in the way of content. They seem to merely be putting together some 3rd party hardware along with their vanilla processors to create an unvalidated, PC-clone that they call a "platform", then run Windows Media Center Edition, and slap a sticker on it and call it Liiv.

It's pathetic, and short-sighted, if you ask me.