HP Winning CableCARD Price Battle
With Dell’s
ending of their Digital Cable Tuner sale, HP has taken the lead in the
mainstream CableCARD desktop price battle.
You can now pickup an HP m9200t that includes a single CableCARD tuner
for as low as $1,099. Dell on the other
hand will cost you $1,304 for the lowest spec’ed XPS 420 with a single
CableCARD tuner (an equal spec’ed HP m9200t is $1,189).
Of course the main problem with HP has been CableCARD
support, which for the most part is non-existent. Pair that with HP still only offering single
CableCARD and the on again
off again availability of Digital Cable Tuners from their site and it might
still be a tossup.
One key advantage of HP is use of standard ATX (Micro ATX?)
hardware. Dell on the other hand uses
BTX which makes case transplants near impossible.
Update:
Dell
Drops Prices on CableCARD Tuners
