Network connectivity is on the way

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Posted by: Doozer, on 11/13/2009, in category "Blog"
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After spending less time than I'd like playing with the new XBMC, I picked up a wireless bridge tonight to get it connected to my home network. The internal 8GB drive is so small that you really can't do much with it. My main concern now is if I ever use it to play X-box games again (which is unlikely but possible) I may want to download some, and I don't think they can be played from a remote machine. I have no basis for that assumption, other than thinking it would be too slow to be a viable option. And with only 8 gigs of local storage, I can't imagine a lot of games could be stored there. Then it comes down to cloning that drive onto a more reasonable 250 or 500gb drive - I haven't opened it yet but I assume it's an IDE drive, so finding one of those would be another problem.

Whatever the case, I've already loaded some songs and videos directly on the machine just to test it out, and it seems to work pretty well. I'm mildly concerned that the interface will still be a bit too overwhelming for my wife to really get into, but we'll see. Maybe my 2-yr old will be able to teach her. He's pretty much got all the other remotes/tvs/dvdplayers figured out.

(yes, he's nearly 2 already!)